Re: [HACKERS] Function to move the position of a replication slot

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I don't quite see how you'd get corruption from a physical slot being
> forwarded? I mean you surely can get into the situation that there's
> missing WAL from wherever a standby is receiving its WAL, but that'll
> "just" break replication.

Um, doesn't advancing a slot correspond exactly to skipping some amount
of WAL?
        regards, tom lane