Streaming Replication Protocol Interface

Streaming Replication Protocol Interface

The commands

• CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT slot_name LOGICAL output_plugin
• DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT slot_name [ WAIT ]
• START_REPLICATION SLOT slot_name LOGICAL ... are used to create, drop, and stream changes from a replication slot, respectively. These commands are only available over a replication connection; they cannot be used via SQL. See Streaming Replication Protocol for details on these commands.

The command app-pgrecvlogical can be used to control logical decoding over a streaming replication connection. (It uses these commands internally.)