#Postgres mailing list thread https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539[email protected] ("Synchronizing slots from primary to standby") has reached 498 messages, and has run for 809 days.

Wow.

Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

I want to reactivate $subject. I took Petr Jelinek's patch from [0], rebased it, added a bit of testing. It …

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It's now 660 emails in this thread ... and most of the patches have now been committed. I think we're down to one last patch.

This means that #Postgres 17 will have pretty powerful logical replication. For high-availability, it's a huge leap forward.

(I would advise not to try and build multi-master replication on top of it, though. There are apparently quite some difficult problems remaining ... and it doesn't scale all that well anyway ...)

@alvherre And is there any progress?
@ascherbaum oh, absolutely. Three days later, it appears that it's ready to go in. It's a great new feature for Postgres 17 if you ask me.
@alvherre This is great progress, and will save a lot of hassle.