Replication Slot size increasing rapidly for postgresql

Replication slots were introduced in PostgreSQL to help ensure a primary PostgreSQL instance does not remove WAL files before a replica has

src=# DELETE FROM nopk WHERE foo='boston'; ERROR: cannot delete from table nopk because it does not have a replica identity and publishes

postgres create replication slot Logical decoding and replication slots being introduced in PostgreSQL Soft delete

postgres replication slot Unused slots can be dropped to remove WAL segments using the pg_drop_replication_slot command There generally is one replication slot and WAL sender per