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This adds the native failover slot support Spock 6 needs on Postgres 17 and up.

Changes

  • Added a check, postgres.NeedsNativeFailoverSlots, that only turns any of this on when the database is running Spock 6 or newer and Postgres 17 or newer. Everything else in this PR sits behind that one check.
  • CreateReplicationSlot now accepts a failover flag. When that flag is off, the SQL it produces is exactly what it was before this change, so there is nothing new for clusters that don't qualify.
  • Added NativeFailoverSlotGUCs, which turns on sync_replication_slots as part of the normal Patroni config generation once a database crosses that gate.
  • Added a new piece to the instance monitor, reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots, that keeps the synchronized_standby_slots setting pointed at whatever physical standby slots actually exist on the current primary. It checks and recomputes this fresh every five seconds instead of remembering a cached value, so if something only half succeeds (say the config gets patched but the reload doesn't happen), it just corrects itself on the next check rather than getting stuck. It also skips temporary slots on purpose, since those disappear the moment the session that made them ends and were never something worth pointing this setting at.

Testing

  • Added unit tests covering the version gating, the exact SQL CreateReplicationSlot produces with the flag on and off, and the temporary slot exclusion.
  • Ran this against a real Spock 6 cluster and confirmed the slot actually gets created with failover on, both right when a database is first created and again when adding a node later.
  • The part I really wanted to get right was the failover itself, so I set up an actual two instance Patroni pair on separate machines and forced a real failover through the API. Did this twice, swapping which side was primary each time, and both times synchronized_standby_slots was already correct on the new primary by the time the failover finished, no extra nudge needed. Wrote data before the failover and after it and confirmed it made it to both sides either way.
  • Also checked the regression direction directly: created a physical replication slot on a Spock 5.x database on purpose, to see if it would trick the monitor, and confirmed it just left everything alone like it should.

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  • Tests added or updated (unit and/or e2e, as needed)
  • Documentation updated (if needed)
  • Issue is linked (branch name or URL in PR description): PLAT-719
  • Changelog entry added for user-facing behavior changes
  • Breaking changes (if any) are clearly called out in the PR description: none

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The pull request adds version-gated native failover slot support, version-aware replication slot SQL, Patroni-managed synchronized standby slots, and bounded, non-fatal primary monitoring reconciliation.

Native failover slot support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Failover eligibility and configuration
server/internal/postgres/gucs.go, server/internal/postgres/gucs_test.go, server/internal/patroni/gucs.go
Native failover support requires Spock 6 or later and PostgreSQL 17 or later. sync_replication_slots is enabled for supported versions. synchronized_standby_slots is routed through Patroni-controlled configuration.
Replication slot creation and queries
server/internal/postgres/create_db.go, server/internal/postgres/create_db_test.go, server/internal/database/replication_slot_create_resource.go
Replication slot creation selects the five-argument failover form when enabled. New queries expose permanent physical slots and the current synchronized standby setting. Spock progress queries select the LSN column for the installed Spock version.
Primary monitoring reconciliation
server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go
Reconciliation failures are logged and swallowed. Invalid versions skip reconciliation. Patroni patch and reload operations use a 10-second timeout.

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I hop through slots where failovers gleam,
With Patroni guiding every stream.
Versions choose the safest way,
Timeouts keep the waits at bay.
Logs record what could not align—
And standby paths stay neat and fine.

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The PR is merge-ready after normal checks; the only open item is a localized edge-case test suggestion for malformed version data, which does not indicate a current production correctness failure.

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server/internal/postgres/create_db_test.go (1)

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Also assert the deterministic ordering clause.

InstanceMonitor.reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots compares the joined slot names against the live GUC as a plain string. That comparison is only stable because the query returns rows in a fixed order. Add an assertion for ORDER BY slot_name so a later edit cannot remove it and cause a patch and reload on every poll.

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 func TestPhysicalReplicationSlotNames(t *testing.T) {
 	query := postgres.PhysicalReplicationSlotNames()
 	assert.Contains(t, query.SQL, "slot_type = 'physical'")
 	assert.Contains(t, query.SQL, "NOT temporary",
 		"must exclude temporary slots -- they vanish with their creating session and shouldn't be depended on")
+	assert.Contains(t, query.SQL, "ORDER BY slot_name",
+		"order must be deterministic -- the monitor compares the joined names against the live GUC as a string")
 }
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In `@server/internal/postgres/create_db_test.go` around lines 97 - 102, Update
TestPhysicalReplicationSlotNames to assert that
postgres.PhysicalReplicationSlotNames().SQL contains the deterministic ORDER BY
slot_name clause, preserving the existing assertions for physical and
non-temporary slots.
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In `@server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go`:
- Around line 180-184: In server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go lines
180-184, update the populateFromDbConn reconciliation call around
reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots to log failures with zerolog and continue
instead of returning the error. In server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go
lines 219-234, update the version-resolution logic used by
reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots to return nil when parsing fails or the major
version cannot be resolved, preserving fail-open behavior for unsupported Spock
versions.
- Around line 257-269: Update the synchronized_standby_slots handling around
PatchDynamicConfig and Reload to use Patroni’s restart flow for this
postmaster-level setting, verify pending_restart before relying on native
failover slots, and configure a bounded HTTP client instead of the nil client’s
unbounded default transport.

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In `@server/internal/postgres/create_db_test.go`:
- Around line 97-102: Update TestPhysicalReplicationSlotNames to assert that
postgres.PhysicalReplicationSlotNames().SQL contains the deterministic ORDER BY
slot_name clause, preserving the existing assertions for physical and
non-temporary slots.
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Comment thread server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go
Comment on lines +257 to +269
client := patroni.NewClient(info.PatroniURL(), nil)
_, err = client.PatchDynamicConfig(ctx, &patroni.DynamicConfig{
PostgreSQL: &patroni.DynamicPostgreSQLConfig{
Parameters: utils.PointerTo(map[string]any{
"synchronized_standby_slots": desired,
}),
},
})
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("failed to patch synchronized_standby_slots to %q: %w", desired, err)
}
if err := client.Reload(ctx); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("failed to reload after patching synchronized_standby_slots: %w", err)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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When you use the Patroni REST API PATCH /config endpoint, the configuration changes are propagated through the following mechanism: 1. DCS Propagation: The PATCH request updates the global dynamic configuration stored in the Distributed Configuration Store (DCS), such as etcd, Consul, or ZooKeeper [1][2]. 2. Local Propagation: Patroni nodes watch the DCS for changes [2]. When an update is detected, each node updates its own internal view of the configuration [2][3]. 3. postgresql.conf Modification: Patroni ensures that dynamic configuration options (such as postgresql.parameters) are applied to the PostgreSQL instance [2][4]. It manages this by rewriting the postgresql.conf file [4][5]. Specifically, Patroni renames the original configuration file to postgresql.base.conf (or uses a custom base file if defined via custom_conf) and modifies postgresql.conf to include this base file [5][6]. This allows Patroni to write new, dynamic configuration parameters directly into postgresql.conf while maintaining the original settings as the base [4][6]. 4. Application of Changes: - For configuration changes that do not require a restart (e.g., those that can be reloaded via SIGHUP), Patroni triggers a configuration reload asynchronously on the nodes upon the next wake-up cycle [2][4]. - For PostgreSQL parameters that require a restart (those with postmaster context), Patroni will set a pending_restart flag in the node's status (visible in the API and via patronictl) [2][5]. The administrator must then explicitly trigger a restart (e.g., via the /restart REST API endpoint or patronictl restart) to apply these changes [2][5]. Additionally, Patroni maintains a local file named patroni.dynamic.json in the PostgreSQL data directory, which serves as a local dump of the DCS configuration to allow for recovery if the DCS is unavailable [2][3].

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In PostgreSQL 17, the synchronized_standby_slots configuration parameter is a postmaster-level parameter that cannot be changed via a reload (SIGHUP) [1][2]. According to the official PostgreSQL 17 documentation, this parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line [1][2]. Changes to this parameter require a server restart to take effect. The synchronized_standby_slots parameter is used to specify a comma-separated list of physical replication slot names that logical WAL sender processes must wait for before sending decoded changes to plugins [1][2]. This ensures that logical failover slots do not consume changes until those changes have been received and flushed to the specified physical standby servers, facilitating reliable logical replication failover [1][3].

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Apply synchronized_standby_slots with a restart and bound Patroni requests. PostgreSQL 17 treats this parameter as postmaster-level, so Reload cannot apply it; ensure Patroni restarts the required instances and verify pending_restart before relying on native failover slots. The nil client also uses http.DefaultClient with no timeout, so a stalled REST call can block the monitor.

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In `@server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go` around lines 257 - 269, Update
the synchronized_standby_slots handling around PatchDynamicConfig and Reload to
use Patroni’s restart flow for this postmaster-level setting, verify
pending_restart before relying on native failover slots, and configure a bounded
HTTP client instead of the nil client’s unbounded default transport.

Comment thread server/internal/patroni/gucs.go Outdated
"max_replication_slots",
"wal_keep_segments",
"wal_keep_size",
// Reload-safe, kept identical across every instance in the node via

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The values in dcsGUCs and dynamicGUCs come from here: https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/patroni_configuration.html#important-rules

sync_replication_slots isn't listed on that page, so it doesn't belong in this list, and we can just treat it like any other setting.

// reconciliation (see server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go).
// Listed here purely so this file stays the one place documenting
// every GUC this codebase manages through Patroni's DCS, reload-safe.
"synchronized_standby_slots",

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This setting is related to synchronous physical replicas. We currently support only asynchronous replicas, so we shouldn't set this parameter.

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Checked the actual docs and it turns out this isn't tied to synchronous replication at all, it works the same with async standbys. But there is a real catch worth knowing about. If a physical standby lags or drops, the primary just waits for it before sending changes to Spock peers, no timeout. And since a node can already span multiple hosts today, that's not a hypothetical, a slow or disconnected replica could stall a node's whole outbound replication.

So it's not exactly the sync replication issue you mentioned, but there is a real tradeoff here worth talking about before we lock t

// since the reconciliation is self-correcting on every poll (see
// its own doc comment), nothing is lost by retrying next tick
// instead of surfacing this as an instance-level error now.
if err := m.reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots(ctx, conn, info, pgVersion, spockVersion); err != nil {

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Why is this necessary? As I mentioned in another comment, we don't support synchronous replicas right now, so I don't think we should set synchronized_standby_slots.

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Same answer as the other thread, this is what makes a failover slot safe to use after a promotion. Without it, a promoted standby has no guarantee it got the WAL a failover enabled slot needed.

One thing worth flagging though, if a physical standby lags or drops, the primary waits for it with no timeout, and nodes can already span multiple hosts today, so that's a real risk. Mechanism's doing what it's supposed to, just introduces a new way a slow replica could stall replication. Happy to keep it or talk through bounding it if that's a concern.

Comment thread server/internal/postgres/gucs.go Outdated
// different primary. That value is instead computed from live replication
// state and kept in sync at runtime — see
// server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go.
func NativeFailoverSlotGUCs(version *ds.PgEdgeVersion) map[string]any {

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DefaultGUCs in this file already takes the pgEdge version and has similar logic for output_plugin_libraries. Is there a reason to add this new function rather than just incorporating this logic into DefaultGUCs?

Implements PG17+'s native logical-slot-failover mechanism for Spock
6 clusters, fully gated so Spock 5.x deployments see zero behavior
change:

- postgres.NeedsNativeFailoverSlots gates all of the below behind
  Spock major >= 6 && Postgres major >= 17.
- CreateReplicationSlot takes a failover bool; the SQL is
  byte-identical to before when false.
- NativeFailoverSlotGUCs sets sync_replication_slots = on as a
  static, spec-known default via PatroniConfigGenerator.
- InstanceMonitor.reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots keeps
  synchronized_standby_slots in sync with each node's actual live
  physical standby slots, on the primary only. Self-correcting on
  every 5s poll rather than cached, so a partial failure (DCS patch
  succeeds, reload doesn't) retries on the next tick instead of
  getting stuck. Temporary slots are excluded, since they vanish
  with their creating session and were never meant to be depended
  on.

synchronized_standby_slots' maintenance is Control-Plane-side
monitoring rather than a Patroni on_role_change callback: the
live-GUC-push mechanism and role-polling this needs already exist
in this codebase, while a callback would need new script-delivery
and auth plumbing into the Postgres/Patroni container with no
existing precedent. Full comparison in ADR-0003 (internal-design-docs).

Verified live end to end, including two independent real Patroni
failovers on separate hosts with roles reversed between runs:
synchronized_standby_slots was already correct for the new primary
by the time each failover task completed, and replication continued
in both directions through the transition.

PLAT-719
reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots errors were propagating all the
way out of populateFromDbConn, so a transient Patroni REST hiccup
(most likely to happen right after a failover, exactly when this
reconciliation has real work to do) would report an otherwise
healthy primary as errored and discard the version/subscription
data the same pass had already collected. Since the reconciliation
is self-correcting on every 5s poll, nothing is lost by logging and
retrying instead of surfacing it as an instance-level error.

Also:
- Fail open (return nil) on an unparseable version string, matching
  needsOutputPluginLibraries/nativeFailoverSlotMajors' existing
  convention of treating an unresolvable version as "not eligible"
  rather than an error. Unreachable in practice today, since the
  version strings here always come from a live, successful query.
- Bound the Patroni PatchDynamicConfig/Reload calls with their own
  10s timeout. patroni.NewClient's default http.Client has no
  request timeout of its own, so a stalled connection during a
  Patroni election could otherwise block this instance's status
  collection indefinitely.

Verified live against a real Patroni failover (Lima fixture, two
separate hosts): confirmed instance health stayed available/no-error
on both instances throughout the transition, and re-ran every other
PLAT-719 scenario from scratch with these changes applied with no
regressions.

PLAT-719
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  • server/internal/postgres/create_db_test.go
  • server/internal/postgres/gucs.go
  • server/internal/postgres/gucs_test.go

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func TestNeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion(t *testing.T) {
for _, tc := range []struct {
name string
version *ds.PgEdgeVersion
expected bool
}{
{name: "nil version", version: nil, expected: false},
{name: "spock 5 pg18", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("18.4", "5"), expected: false},
{name: "spock 6 pg16", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("16.10", "6"), expected: false},
{name: "spock 6 pg17", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("17.0", "6"), expected: true},
{name: "spock 6 pg18", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("18.4", "6"), expected: true},
} {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, tc.expected, postgres.NeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion(tc.version))
})
}

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Test unresolved version components.

NeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion returns false when either major version is unavailable. Add cases with an empty ds.Version for SpockVersion and PostgresVersion. This protects the safe fallback for failed version parsing.

Proposed test cases
 	}{
 		{name: "nil version", version: nil, expected: false},
+		{
+			name: "missing Spock major",
+			version: &ds.PgEdgeVersion{
+				PostgresVersion: ds.MustParseVersion("17.0"),
+				SpockVersion:    &ds.Version{},
+			},
+			expected: false,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "missing Postgres major",
+			version: &ds.PgEdgeVersion{
+				PostgresVersion: &ds.Version{},
+				SpockVersion:    ds.MustParseVersion("6.0"),
+			},
+			expected: false,
+		},
 		{name: "spock 5 pg18", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("18.4", "5"), expected: false},
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func TestNeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion(t *testing.T) {
for _, tc := range []struct {
name string
version *ds.PgEdgeVersion
expected bool
}{
{name: "nil version", version: nil, expected: false},
{name: "spock 5 pg18", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("18.4", "5"), expected: false},
{name: "spock 6 pg16", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("16.10", "6"), expected: false},
{name: "spock 6 pg17", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("17.0", "6"), expected: true},
{name: "spock 6 pg18", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("18.4", "6"), expected: true},
} {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, tc.expected, postgres.NeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion(tc.version))
})
}
func TestNeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion(t *testing.T) {
for _, tc := range []struct {
name string
version *ds.PgEdgeVersion
expected bool
}{
{name: "nil version", version: nil, expected: false},
{
name: "missing Spock major",
version: &ds.PgEdgeVersion{
PostgresVersion: ds.MustParseVersion("17.0"),
SpockVersion: &ds.Version{},
},
expected: false,
},
{
name: "missing Postgres major",
version: &ds.PgEdgeVersion{
PostgresVersion: &ds.Version{},
SpockVersion: ds.MustParseVersion("6.0"),
},
expected: false,
},
{name: "spock 5 pg18", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("18.4", "5"), expected: false},
{name: "spock 6 pg16", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("16.10", "6"), expected: false},
{name: "spock 6 pg17", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("17.0", "6"), expected: true},
{name: "spock 6 pg18", version: ds.MustParsePgEdgeVersion("18.4", "6"), expected: true},
} {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, tc.expected, postgres.NeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion(tc.version))
})
}
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In `@server/internal/postgres/gucs_test.go` around lines 65 - 80, Add table-driven
cases to TestNeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion covering versions with an empty
ds.Version for SpockVersion and PostgresVersion, asserting
NeedsNativeFailoverSlotsForVersion returns false in both cases.

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