Dear Peter,

Thanks for giving comments. I want to reply some of them.

> > 17.
> >
> > "specifies promote"
> >
> > We can do double-quote for the word promote.
> 
> The v30 patch has <literal>promote</literal>, which I think is adequate.

Opps. Actually I did look v29 patch while firstly reviewing. Sorry for noise.

> 
> > 20.
> >
> > New options must be also documented as well. This helps not only users but
> also
> > reviewers.
> > (Sometimes we cannot identify that the implementation is intentinal or not.)
> 
> Which ones are missing?

In v29, newly added options (publication/subscription/replication-slot) was not 
added.
Since they have been added, please ignore.

> > 21.
> >
> > Also, not sure the specification is good. I preferred to specify them by 
> > format
> > string. Because it can reduce the number of arguments and I cannot find use
> cases
> > which user want to control the name of objects.
> >
> > However, your approach has a benefit which users can easily identify the
> generated
> > objects by pg_createsubscriber. How do other think?
> 
> I think listing them explicitly is better for the first version.  It's
> simpler to implement and more flexible.

OK.

> > 22.
> >
> > ```
> > #define     BASE_OUTPUT_DIR
>       "pg_createsubscriber_output.d"
> > ```
> >
> > No one refers the define.
> 
> This is gone in v30.

I wrote due to the above reason. Please ignore...

> 
> > 31.
> >
> > ```
> >             /* Create replication slot on publisher */
> >             if (lsn)
> >                     pg_free(lsn);
> > ```
> >
> > I think allocating/freeing memory is not so efficient.
> > Can we add a flag to create_logical_replication_slot() for controlling the
> > returning value (NULL or duplicated string)? We can use the condition (i ==
> num_dbs-1)
> > as flag.
> 
> Nothing is even using the return value of
> create_logical_replication_slot().  I think this can be removed altogether.

> > 37.
> >
> > ```
> >     /* Register a function to clean up objects in case of failure */
> >     atexit(cleanup_objects_atexit);
> > ```
> >
> > Sorry if we have already discussed. I think the registration can be moved 
> > just
> > before the boot of the standby. Before that, the callback will be no-op.
> 
> But it can also stay where it is.  What is the advantage of moving it later?

I thought we could reduce the risk of bugs. Previously some bugs were reported
because the registration is too early. However, this is not a strong opinion.

Best Regards,
Hayato Kuroda
FUJITSU LIMITED
https://www.fujitsu.com/ 

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