Preventing WAL Growth on Postgres DB Running on AWS RDS

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Why does postgresql have so many replication slots open? · disabled the subscription on the replica

1 Replication Slot: A replication slot on the primary server is what reads changes from the WAL and passes it to the output plugin to be Physical slots are created automatically based on replica hosts and used for data replication within the Managed Service for PostgreSQL cluster

slot mount standoffs Specify that this replication slot is a temporary one Temporary slots are not saved to disk and are automatically dropped on error or when the session has Replication slots were introduced with PostgreSQL and are designed to ensure that any standby connected to the primary using a replication slot will always