Re: Proposal: Conflict log history table for Logical Replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How about streaming the conflicts in fixed format to a separate log
> > file other than regular postgres server log file?
>
> I would prefer this info to be stored in tables as it would be easy to
> query them. If we use separate LOGs then we should provide some views
> to query the LOG.

Providing views to query the conflicts LOG is the easiest way than
having tables (Probably we must provide both - logging conflicts to
tables and separate LOG files). However, wanting the conflicts logs
after failovers is something that makes me think the table approach is
better. I'm open to more thoughts here.

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Bharath Rupireddy
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