We were directly copying the LSN locations while syncing the slots on the standby. Now, it is possible that at some particular restart_lsn there are some running xacts, which means if we start reading the WAL from that location after promotion, we won't reach a consistent snapshot state at that point. However, on the primary, we would have already been in a consistent snapshot state at that restart_lsn so we would have just serialized the existing snapshot. To avoid this problem we will use the advance_slot functionality unless the snapshot already exists at the synced restart_lsn location. This will help us to ensure that snapbuilder/slot statuses are updated properly without generating any changes. Note that the synced slot will remain as RS_TEMPORARY till the decoding from corresponding restart_lsn can reach a consistent snapshot state after which they will be marked as RS_PERSISTENT. Per buildfarm Author: Hou Zhijie Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Shveta Malik, Bharath Rupireddy, Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716B3942AE49F3F725ACA92943B2@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
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