At Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:28:40 +0530, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote in
> Hi,
>
> At times it's useful to know the last replayed WAL record's timeline
> ID (especially on the standbys that are lagging in applying WAL while
> failing over - for reporting, logging and debugging purposes). AFICS,
> there's no function that exposes the last replayed TLI. We can either
> change the existing pg_last_wal_replay_lsn() to report TLI along with
> the LSN which might break the compatibility or introduce a new
> function pg_last_wal_replay_info() that emits both LSN and TLI. I'm
> fine with either of the approaches, but for now, I'm attaching a WIP
> patch that adds a new function pg_last_wal_replay_info().
>
> Thoughts?
There was a more comprehensive discussion [1], which went nowhere..
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20191211052002.GK72921%40paquier.xyz
regadrs.
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