Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 08:58:05AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:49 AM Bharath Rupireddy
> <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Following are some open points:
> >
> > 1. Where to do inactive_timeout invalidation exactly if not the checkpointer.
> >
> 
> I have suggested to do it at the time of CheckpointReplicationSlots()
> and Bertrand suggested to do it whenever we resume using the slot. I
> think we should follow both the suggestions.

Agree. I also think that pg_get_replication_slots() would be a good place, so
that queries would return the right invalidation status.

> > 4. New invalidation mechanisms interaction with slot sync feature.
> >
> 
> Yeah, this is important. My initial thoughts are that synced slots
> shouldn't be invalidated on the standby due to timeout.

+1

Regards,

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