Disallow altering invalidated replication slots

Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>

To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-09-09T18:41:01Z

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Prohibit altering invalidated replication slots.
- 4d8489f4f1fa 18.0 landed

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v1-0001-Disallow-altering-invalidated-replication-slots.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v1-0001

Hi,

ALTER_REPLICATION_SLOT on invalidated replication slots is unnecessary
as there is no way to get the invalidated (logical) slot to work.
Please find the patch to add an error in such cases. Relevant
discussion is at [1].

Thoughts?

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAA4eK1%2Bszcosq0nS109mMSxPWyNT1Q%3DUNYCJgXKYuCceaPS%2BhA%40mail.gmail.com

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