Commit 044b319c authored by Michael Paquier's avatar Michael Paquier

Fix some comments related to logical repslot advancing

confirmed_flush is part of a replication slot's information, but not
confirmed_lsn.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191226.175919.17237335658671970.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
parent 1ab41a3c
......@@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ pg_physical_replication_slot_advance(XLogRecPtr moveto)
/*
* Helper function for advancing our logical replication slot forward.
*
* The slot's restart_lsn is used as start point for reading records,
* while confirmed_lsn is used as base point for the decoding context.
* The slot's restart_lsn is used as start point for reading records, while
* confirmed_flush is used as base point for the decoding context.
*
* We cannot just do LogicalConfirmReceivedLocation to update confirmed_flush,
* because we need to digest WAL to advance restart_lsn allowing to recycle
......@@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ pg_replication_slot_advance(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
/*
* Check if the slot is not moving backwards. Physical slots rely simply
* on restart_lsn as a minimum point, while logical slots have confirmed
* consumption up to confirmed_lsn, meaning that in both cases data older
* than that is not available anymore.
* consumption up to confirmed_flush, meaning that in both cases data
* older than that is not available anymore.
*/
if (OidIsValid(MyReplicationSlot->data.database))
minlsn = MyReplicationSlot->data.confirmed_flush;
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