Hi, I indeed proposed a solution at the top of this thread to modify only the value of the synced attribute, but the discussion was redirected to adding an extra parameter to the function pg_create_logical_replication_slot() to overwrite a failover slot
On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM Alexander Kukushkin <cyberdemn@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I don't think we really need to have allow_overwrite. > It is not possible to create logical slots on standby with failover=true, therefore we can safely rely on failover being true to understand that at some point this node was a primary and that this slot is supposed to be synced. > Please see the patch attached. >
We had discussed this point in another thread, please see [1]. After discussion it was decided to not go this way.
