Re: Fix slot synchronization with two_phase decoding enabled - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The second can mislead the user
> > > for a long period in cases where prepare and commit have a large time
> > > gap. I feel this will introduce complexity either in the form of code
> > > or in giving the information to the user.
> >
> > Agreed. Both ways introduce complexity so we need to consider the
> > user-unfriendliness (by not having a proper way to enable failover for
> > the two_phase-enabled-slot using SQL API) vs. risk (of introducing
> > complexity).
> >
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> Right, to me it sounds risky to provide such functionality for SQL API
> in the back branch.

So do you think it's okay to leave it as a restriction (i.e. there is
no easy way to enable failover for a two_phase-enabled logical slot
created by SQL API)? or do you have any better idea for that?

Regards,

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