On 2014-07-11 11:08:48 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Is there a particular reason why pg_receivexlog only supports using
> manually created slots but pg_recvlogical supports creating and
> dropping them? Wouldn't it be good for consistency there?
I've added it to recvlogical because logical decoding isn't usable
without slots. I'm not sure what you'd want to create/drop a slot from
receivexlog for, but I'm not adverse to adding the capability.
> I'm guessing it's related to not being exposed over the replication
> protocol?
It's exposed:
create_replication_slot: /* CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT slot PHYSICAL */ K_CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT IDENT
K_PHYSICAL
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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