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Advancing a physical replication slot with pg_replication_slot_advance() did not mark the slot as dirty if any advancing was done, preventing the follow-up checkpoint to flush the slot data to disk. This caused the advancing to be lost even on clean restarts. This does not happen for logical slots as any advancing marked the slot as dirty. Per discussion, the original feature has been implemented so as in the event of a crash the slot may move backwards to a past LSN. This property is kept and more documentation is added about that. This commit adds some new TAP tests to check the persistency of physical and logical slots after advancing across clean restarts. Author: Alexey Kondratov, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Craig Ringer Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/059cc53a-8b14-653a-a24d-5f867503b0ee@postgrespro.ru Backpatch-through: 11
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