TechPlanetScale10 months ago
Postgres High Availability with CDC
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Postgres 17 adds logical replication failover, but slot eligibility on standbys requires the CDC client to have advanced the slot on that standby first. A lagging client makes promotion impossible without breaking the CDC stream. The logical replication slot pins WAL on the primary until the client advances.
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