On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Petr Jelinek <petr.jeli...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> On 26/04/17 18:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> ... it just hangs. My server logs say: > >> Yes that's result of how logical replication slots work, the transaction >> that needs to finish is your transaction. It can be worked around by >> creating the slot manually via the SQL interface for example and create >> the subscription using WITH (NOCREATE SLOT, SLOT NAME = 'your slot') . > > If that's a predictable deadlock, I think a minimum expectation is that > the system should notice it and throw an error, not just hang. (Then > the error could give a hint about how to work around it.) But the case > Bruce has in mind doesn't seem like a crazy use-case to me. Can't we > make it "just work"?
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