PostgreSQL 13: Don't let slots kill your primary

This simply introduces two new options allowing to create or drop a physical replication slot, respectively –create-slot and –drop-slot The

Physical replication slots were introduced to PostgreSQL with version , while logical replication slots were added beginning with version · The default

postgresql drop replication slot The slots feature introduced in allows Postgres to track the latest segment downloaded by a slave server Now, PostgreSQL can keep all

postgresql create replication slot 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