May 2018
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While playing with this feature for the first time, try the --verbose option.
For more detail on logical decoding plugins, we refer to the Logical replication recipe earlier in this chapter.
Replication monitoring will show pg_receivewal and pg_recvlogical in exactly the same way as it shows other connected nodes, so there is no additional monitoring required. The default application_name is the same as the name of the tool, so you may want to set that parameter to something more meaningful to you.
With pg_receivewal and pg_recvlogical, you can use the --create-slot and --drop-slot options to control replication slots.
You can archive WAL files using synchronous replication by specifying pg_receivewal --synchronous. This causes ...