Re: Need Force flag for pg_drop_replication_slot()

* Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
> How is this measurably worse than trying to truncate a log table that
> has grown too large? That's often harder to fight actually, because
> there's dozens of other processes that might be using the relation?  In
> one case you don't have wait ordering, but only one locker, in the other
> case you have multiple waiters, and to benefit from wait ordering you
> need multiple sessions.

Because we don't fall over if we can't extend a relation.

We do fall over if we can't write WAL.
Thanks!
    Stephen