Re: pg_basebackups and slots

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Peter Eisentraut <
peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> On 12/15/16 4:04 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > This obviously requires the server to be configured with enough slots (I
> > still think we should change the default here, but that's a different
> > topic), but I think that's acceptable.
>
> We could implicitly reserve one replication slot per walsender.  And
> then max_replication_slots (possibly renamed) would just be additional
> slots beyond that.
>

That makes a lot of sense now that we have temporary replication slots, I
agree. And then max_replication_slots could be something like
persistent_replication_slots?


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