Re: CREATE REPLICATION SLOT fails on a timeout - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 05/16/2014 04:43 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't think that's going to cut it though. The creation can take
> longer than whatever wal_sender_timeout is set to (when there's lots of
> longrunning transactions). I think checking whether last_reply_timestamp
> = 0 during timeout checking is more robust.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund
>
>


That makes sense.
A patch that does that is attached.

Steve