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Re: pg_basebackups and slots

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-12-17T14:54:38Z
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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.

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