On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Vladimir Borodin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Oleksii Kliukin wrote: >> Could it be a consequence of how REPEATABLE READ transactions handle >> snapshots? With REPEATABLE READ the snapshot is acquired only once at the >> beginning of a transaction; a READ COMMITTED transaction re-evaluates its >> snapshot with each new command. > > I still don’t fully understand why is it so (the problem occurs while > running only one SELECT-statement in READ COMMITED so only one snapshot is > taken), but if is expected behavior shouldn’t the documentation mention that > using READ COMMITTED (which is the default) you may still get conflicts with > recovery while using replication slots? Replication slots and hot_standby_feedback are two different unrelated concepts, slots being aimed at retaining WAL. I guess that's the origin of your confusion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150616192141.GD2626@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin