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It's entirely possible for a logical slot to have a confirmed_flush LSN higher than the last value saved on disk while not being marked as dirty. Currently, it is not a major problem but a later patch adding support for the upgrade of slots relies on that value being properly flushed to disk. It can also help avoid processing the same transactions again in some boundary cases after the clean shutdown and restart. Say, we process some transactions for which we didn't send anything downstream (the changes got filtered) but the confirm_flush LSN is updated due to keepalives. As we don't flush the latest value of confirm_flush LSN, it may lead to processing the same changes again without this patch. The approach taken by this patch has been suggested by Ashutosh Bapat. Author: Vignesh C, Julien Rouhaud, Kuroda Hayato Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier, Ashutosh Bapat, Peter Smith, Hou Zhijie Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JzJagMmb_E8D4au=GYQkxox0AfNBm1FbP7sy7t4YWXPQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58664C81887B3AF2EB6B16E3F5939@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
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