Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > 2) don't drop because we know it won't work. I see two options:
> > c) ignore a drop slot failure, i.e. don't cause a transaction abort.
> > An easy way to implement this is just add a PG_TRY block, but we
> > dislike adding those and not re-throwing the error.
>
> Dislike doesn't seem like the right word. Unless you rollback a
> (sub)transaction, none of the cleanup that would normally do is done,
True. So one possible implementation is that we open a subtransaction
before dropping the slot, and we abort it if things go south. This is a
bit slower, but not critically so.
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