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Re: Questions on Upgrading PostgreSQL from 15.0 to 15.9 and Setting Up Streaming Replication

Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>

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From: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>
To: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-11-24T19:54:52Z
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> On Nov 24, 2024, at 09:15, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Doesn't the existence of a replication slot force PG to retain WAL files when replication is broken?

It does.  I don't recall if the OP said that they were using a persistent replication slot or not; it's not as common with binary replication as with logical replication.