Re: Document slot's restart_lsn can go backward

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-07-19T12:47:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> While working on the patch fixing the situation when slot's
> restart_lsn ends up pointing to a removed WAL segment [1], we
> discovered that sometimes slot's restart_lsn can go backward
> [2][3][4].  Hayato Kuroda proposed a patch [5], which improves
> comments by describing this behavior.  As proposed by Amit Kapila [6],
> I'm starting a new thread about this comments patch.
>
> Any feedback on this patch?

If nobody has additions/objections, I'll push this change.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov
Supabase



Commits

  1. Update comment for ReplicationSlot.last_saved_restart_lsn