On 1 February 2014 03:50, Robert Haas <rh...@postgresql.org> wrote: > Introduce replication slots. > > Replication slots are a crash-safe data structure which can be created > on either a master or a standby to prevent premature removal of > write-ahead log segments needed by a standby, as well as (with > hot_standby_feedback=on) pruning of tuples whose removal would cause > replication conflicts. Slots have some advantages over existing > techniques, as explained in the documentation. > > In a few places, we refer to the type of replication slots introduced > by this patch as "physical" slots, because forthcoming patches for > logical decoding will also have slots, but with somewhat different > properties. >
So now that I've actually gone to use physical replication slots, I can't get them working. Primary postgresql.conf changes: shared_buffers = 8MB logging_collector = on log_line_prefix = '%m - %u - %d' max_connections = 8 wal_level = 'hot_standby' port = 5532 max_wal_senders = 4 max_replication_slots = 4 Standby postgresql.conf changes: shared_buffers = 8MB logging_collector = on log_line_prefix = '%m - %u - %d' max_connections = 8 wal_level = 'hot_standby' port = 5533 hot_standby = on Standby recovery.conf: standby_mode = 'on' recovery_target_timeline = 'latest' primary_conninfo = 'host=127.0.0.1 user=rep_user port=5532 application_name=standby1' primary_slotname = 'primary_physical_slot' Primary: psql://thom@[local]:5532/postgres # SELECT * FROM pg_replication_slots; slot_name | slot_type | datoid | database | active | xmin | restart_lsn -----------------------+-----------+--------+----------+--------+------+------------- primary_physical_slot | physical | 0 | | f | | (1 row) Errors in primary log: 2014-02-28 19:00:40.459 GMT - rep_user - [unknown]ERROR: syntax error (repeated every 5 seconds) Errors in standby log: 2014-02-28 19:00:40.459 GMT - - FATAL: could not start WAL streaming: ERROR: syntax error (repeated every 5 seconds) Am I missing something obvious? The error message isn't particularly helpful. -- Thom