Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:50:38AM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 2:11 PM Bertrand Drouvot
> <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 03:44:34PM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> > Unless I am misinterpreting some details, ISTM we could rename this column
>> > to invalidation_reason and use it for both logical and physical slots.  I'm
>> > not seeing a strong need for another column.
>>
>> Yeah having two columns was more for convenience purpose. Without the "conflict"
>> one, a slot conflicting with recovery would be "a logical slot having a non NULL
>> invalidation_reason".
>>
>> I'm also fine with one column if most of you prefer that way.
> 
> While we debate on the above, please find the attached v7 patch set
> after rebasing.

It looks like Bertrand is okay with reusing the same column for both
logical and physical slots, which IIUC is what you initially proposed in v1
of the patch set.

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