Add or remove replication slots from a PostgreSQL database

Starting from PostgreSQL , it is also necessary and useful to check for leftover replication slots The core issue is that if somebody forgets to drop a

Add or remove replication slots from a PostgreSQL database A physical replication slot prevents a source DB instance from removing WAL data before it's consumed by all read replicas Each read replica has its own

Starting from PostgreSQL , it is also necessary and useful to check for leftover replication slots The core issue is that if somebody forgets to drop a

drop and lock slot machine A limitation of the PostgreSQL implementation is that replication slots are not cluster-aware: a replication slot exists solely on the instance

Normally, the remote replication slot is created automatically when the subscription is created during CREATE SUBSCRIPTION, and it is dropped

drops of gold slot The WAL files will just pile up So you need to monitor the slots and manually drop them Only when you do that will the master delete anything

Specify that this replication slot is a temporary one Temporary slots are not saved to disk and are automatically dropped on error or when the session has