Documentation: 16: Logical Decoding Concepts

Documentation: 16: Logical Decoding Concepts create logical replication slot postgres This concept of a “physical replication slot” was then advanced so you can also create “logical replication slots” which are used in logical create replication slot With the change in Postgres 16, when you're on a standby, you can actually create a logical replication slot There are a few mechanics around

create replication slot Each replication slot streams a sequence of changes from a single database, and each publication exists in only one database, so you need to create one or more

create logical replication slot postgres select pg_create_logical_replication_slot; Or you create the replication slot using the replication protocol psql  The function pg_create_physical_replication_slot is used to create a physical replication slot This command has to be run in the master node