You could drop and re-create the replication slot, I guess. But your nodes would be hopelessly out of sync and need manual resync (with data replication disabled) of one node vs another.
Thanks for pointing to replication slot.
I Simulate the similar situation in dev env by remove the wal segment on node1, when node2 keep inserting into a table, now it perfectly can move forward to latest wal segment, but the difference situation is at node_status.
In production node_status is i in node1
there's a known bug in bdr1 where sometimes the node status doesn't update from 'i' after joining.
can I safely update the node_status directy on bdr.bdr_nodes?
Usually not. In this one specific case where a node is known to be fully joined and online, but its status is stuck at 'i', yes.