I ran into the issue described below with 10.0 beta. The error I got is: pg_basebackup: could not create temporary replication slot "pg_basebackup_2194": ERROR: replication slot "pg_basebackup_2194" already exists A race condition? Or maybe I am doing something wrong. Release: Name : postgresql10-server Version : 10.0 Release : beta1PGDG.rhel7 Test Type: Functional testing of a pacemaker resource agent (https://github.com/ulodciv/pgha) Test Detail: During context/environement setup, pg_basebackup is invoked (in parallel) from multiple virtual machines. The backups are then started as asynchronously replicated hot standbies. Platform: Centos 7.3 Installation Method: yum -y install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/testing/10/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat10-10-1.noarch.rpm yum -y install postgresql10-server postgresql10-contrib Platform Detail: Test Procedure: Have pg_basebackup run simultaneously on multiple hosts against the same instance eg: pg_basebackup -h test4 -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/10/data -U repl1 -Xs Failure? E deploylib.deployer_error.DeployerError: postgres@test5: got exit status 1 for: E pg_basebackup -h test4 -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/10/data -U repl1 -Xs E stderr: pg_basebackup: could not create temporary replication slot "pg_basebackup_2194": ERROR: replication slot "pg_basebackup_2194" already exists E pg_basebackup: child process exited with error 1 E pg_basebackup: removing data directory "/var/lib/pgsql/10/data" Test Results: Comments: This seems to be new with 10. I recently began testing the pacemaker resource agent against PG 10. I never had (or noticed) this failure with 9.6.1 and 9.6.2. -- Ludovic -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general