On 2020/06/25 14:48, Fujii Masao wrote:
>
>
> On 2020/06/25 10:00, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> On 2020-Jun-17, Fujii Masao wrote:
>>
>>> The document explains that restart_lsn column in pg_replication_slots view is:
>>>
>>> The address (LSN) of oldest WAL which still might be required by
>>> the consumer of this slot and thus won't be automatically removed
>>> during checkpoints.
>>>
>>> But the latter part is not true in v13 thanks to max_slot_wal_keep_size.
>>> I think that we need to update it as follows. Thought?
>>>
>>> The address (LSN) of oldest WAL which still might be required by
>>> the consumer of this slot and thus won't be automatically removed
>>> during checkpoints unless this LSN gets behind more than
>>> max_slot_wal_keep_size from the current LSN.
>>
>> We just added the invalidated_at LSN to replication slots; while working
>> on the tests for that today, I was thinking that it might be useful to
>> display that LSN in pg_replication_slots. What do you think of the idea
>> of publishing the invalidated_at LSN in pg_replication_slot.restart_lsn
>> when the slot is invalid?
>
> I like having separate column for invalidated_at because (at least for me)
> it's a bit confusing to report the different meaning values in the same column
> depending on the state.
Is there any other objection to the patch? If nothing, I'd like to push it.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
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NTT DATA CORPORATION