Re: pg_recvlogical cannot create slots with failover=true

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-13T05:42:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 07.04.25 21:15, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)
> <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM Masahiko Sawada wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Thank you for updating the patch! Pushed with small cosmetic changes.
>>
>> Thanks for pushing the feature !
>>
>> I noticed one typo in the doc and here is a tiny patch to fix it.
>>
>> -        The <option>--two-phase</option> and <option>--falover</option> options
>> +        The <option>--two-phase</option> and <option>--failover</option> options
> 
> Thank you for the report and the patch! Pushed.

I wonder if the option name --failover is ideal.  To me, it sounds like 
an action "do a failover!".  Also consider that pg_recvlogical has other 
action options such as --start and --create-slot, so it sounds a bit 
like those.

Maybe something like --enable-failover would be better?




Commits

  1. pg_recvlogical: Rename --two-phase and --failover options.

  2. doc: Fix a typo in pg_recvlogical documentation.

  3. pg_recvlogical: Add --failover option.