Petr Jelinek wrote:

> So the only way to fulfill the requirement you stated is to just not try
> to drop the slot, ever, on DROP SUBSCRIPTION. That makes the default
> behavior leave resources on upstream that will eventually cause that
> server to stop unless user notices before. I think we better invent
> something that limits how much inactive slots can hold back WAL and
> catalog_xmin in this release as well then.

I don't understand why isn't the default behavior to unconditionally
drop the slot.  Why do we ever want the slot to be kept?

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