Poul Kristensen wrote: > Sorry for asking a lot. > > pg_replication_slots. > > is this meant to be a slot like a ethernetcard and controller in a physical server. No, it is a data structure with which the PostgreSQL replication master can keep track how far behind a replication slave is. That way it can avoid discarding WAL that is needed by to replication slave to catch up. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin