Re: pgsql: Prevent invalidation of newly synced replication slots. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 11:11 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > What's also puzzling is that what this test is doing seems to be
> > totally standard.
>
> Yeah.  I do notice something interesting when running it here:
> 046_checkpoint_logical_slot_mike.log shows that we are triggering
> quite a few checkpoints (via pg_switch_wal()) in quick succession
> on the primary.  I wonder if that is somehow tickling a Windows
> filesystem restriction.

Maybe, but it seems unlikely to me that this would mess up the
standby, since it's a totally different node. What I kind of wonder is
if somehow there's still a process that has backup_label open, or has
closed it but not recently enough for Windows to unlock it. However, I
don't see why that would affect this test case and not others.

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Robert Haas
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