Re: pg_replslotdata - a tool for displaying replication slot information

On 23.11.21 06:09, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> The replication slots data is stored in binary format on the disk under 
> the pg_replslot/<<slot_name>> directory which isn't human readable. If 
> the server is crashed/down (for whatever reasons) and unable to come up, 
> currently there's no way for the user/admin/developer to know what were 
> all the replication slots available at the time of server crash/down to 
> figure out what's the restart lsn, xid, two phase info or types of slots 
> etc.

What do you need that for?  You can't do anything with a replication 
slot while the server is down.