Re: allow online change primary_conninfo

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, "andres@anarazel.de" <andres@anarazel.de>, "david@pgmasters.net" <david@pgmasters.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-04-01T14:03:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2020-03-28 11:49, Sergei Kornilov wrote:
> I attached updated patch: walreceiver will use configured primary_slot_name as temporary slot name if wal_receiver_create_temp_slot is enabled.

The original setup worked consistently with pg_basebackup.  In 
pg_basebackup, if you specify -S/--slot, then it uses a permanent slot 
with the given name.  This is the same behavior as primary_slot_name has 
now.  We should be careful that we don't create two sets of 
options/settings that look similar but combine in different ways.

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Commits

  1. Allow walreceiver configuration to change on reload