Re: [HACKERS] logical replication and PANIC during shutdowncheckpoint in publisher - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] logical replication and PANIC during shutdowncheckpoint in publisher
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Msg-id 86da214c-122e-33d7-c7d2-3556c1eb8b82@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] logical replication and PANIC during shutdowncheckpoint in publisher  (Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] logical replication and PANIC during shutdowncheckpoint in publisher
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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.

Can we prevent HOT pruning during logical decoding?

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