Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 08:10:00PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> I'm thinking the other way around - how about we revert
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=007693f2a3ac2ac19affcb03ad43cdb36ccff5b5,
> that is, put in place "conflict" as a boolean and introduce
> invalidation_reason the text form. So, for logical slots, whenever the
> "conflict" column is true, the reason is found in invaldiation_reason
> column? How does it sound? Again the debate might be "conflict" vs
> "invalidation", but that looks clean IMHO.

Would you ever see "conflict" as false and "invalidation_reason" as
non-null for a logical slot?

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