On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 5/2/17 03:11, Petr Jelinek wrote: >> logical decoding can theoretically >> do HOT pruning (even if the chance is really small) so it's not safe to >> start logical replication either. > > This seems a bit impossible to resolve. On the one hand, we want to > allow streaming until after the shutdown checkpoint. On the other hand, > streaming itself might produce new WAL.
It would be nice to split things into two: - patch 1 adding the signal handling that wins a backpatch. - patch 2 fixing the side cases with logical decoding. > Can we prevent HOT pruning during logical decoding? It does not sound much difficult to do, couldn't you just make it a no-op with am_walsender? -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
