A future patch (9.5 only) adds slot management to pg_receivexlog. The
verbs create/drop don't seem descriptive enough there. It seems better
to rename pg_recvlogical's commands now, in beta, than live with the
inconsistency forever.
The old form (e.g. --drop) will still be accepted by virtue of most
getopt_long() options accepting abbreviations for long commands.
Backpatch to 9.4 where pg_recvlogical was introduced.
Author: Michael Paquier and Andres Freund
Discussion: CAB7nPqQtt79U6FmhwvgqJmNyWcVCbbV-nS72j_jyPEopERg9rg@mail.gmail.com
Previously the duplicated paragraphs were used next to each other
in the document to demonstrate that the changes in the stream
were not consumed by pg_logical_slot_peek_changes function.
But some users misunderstood that the duplication of the same
paragraph was just typo. So this commit rewords the sentence in
the latter paragraph for less confusing.
Christoph Moench-Tegeder
Previously there's been a mix between 'slotname' and 'slot_name'. It's
not nice to be unneccessarily inconsistent in a new feature. As a post
beta1 initdb now is required in the wake of eeca4cd35e, fix the
inconsistencies.
Most the changes won't affect usage of replication slots because the
majority of changes is around function parameter names. The prominent
exception to that is that the recovery.conf parameter
'primary_slotname' is now named 'primary_slot_name'.
The main problem is that DocBook SGML allows indexterm elements just
about everywhere, but DocBook XML is stricter. For example, this common
pattern
<varlistentry>
<indexterm>...</indexterm>
<term>...</term>
...
</varlistentry>
needs to be changed to something like
<varlistentry>
<term>...<indexterm>...</indexterm></term>
...
</varlistentry>
See also bb4eefe7bf.
There is currently nothing in the build system that enforces that things
stay valid, because that requires additional tools and will receive
separate consideration.