On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 at 13:15, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi hackers.
>
> There is a docs Logical Replication section "31.10 Configuration
> Settings" [1] which describes some logical replication GUCs, and
> details on how they interact with each other and how to take that into
> account when setting their values.
>
> There is another docs Server Configuration section "20.6 Replication"
> [2] which lists the replication-related GUC parameters, and what they
> are for.
>
> Currently AFAIK those two pages are unconnected, but I felt it might
> be helpful if some of the parameters in the list [2] had xref links to
> the additional logical replication configuration information [1]. PSA
> a patch to do that.
>
> ~~
>
> Meanwhile, I also suspect that the main blurb top of [1] is not
> entirely correct... it says "These settings control the behaviour of
> the built-in streaming replication feature", although some of the GUCs
> mentioned later in this section are clearly for "logical replication".
The introduction mainly talks about streaming replication and the page
[1] subsection "Subscribers" clearly mentions that these
configurations are for logical replication. As we already have a
separate page [2] to detail about logical replication configurations,
it might be better to move the "subscribers" section from [1] to [2].
[1] 20.6 Replication -
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-replication.html
[2] 31.10 Configuration Settings -
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication-config.html
Regards,
Vignesh
