Documentation: 16: Streaming Replication Protocol

Introduction · Create a sandbox with two PostgreSQL servers · Test table · Filling WAL with random data · Checking the current WAL size · Check

It is important to remove unused replication setups, since the underlying replication slots in PostgreSQL forces the server to keep all the data needed to

postgres drop replication slot A replication slot is created on the primary database server for each standby server The slot keeps track of the last confirmed receive location of WAL data on

postgresql create replication slot A replication slot exists solely on the instance that created it, and PostgreSQL does not replicate it on the standby servers As a result, after a failover or