Hi,
On 2017-08-29 13:42:05 +0200, Simone Gotti wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >
>
> Hi Alvaro,
>
> > Simone Gotti wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I noticed that in postgres 10beta3, calling pg_drop_replication_slot on an
> > > active slot will block until it's released instead of returning an error
> > > like
> > > done in pg 9.6. Since this is a change in the previous behavior and the docs
> > > wasn't changed I made a patch to restore the previous behavior.
> >
> > Changing that behavior was the entire point of the cited commit.
>
> Sorry, I was thinking that the new behavior was needed for internal
> future functions since the doc wasn't changed.
FWIW, I also don't think it's ok to just change the behaviour
unconditionally and without a replacement for existing behaviour.
Greetings,
Andres Freund