Logical replication is a versatile feature offered in PostgreSQL. I have discussed the the theoretical background of this feature in detail in my POSETTE talk. At the end of the talk, I emphasize the need for monitoring logical replication setup. If you are using logical replication and have setup monitoring you will be familiar with pg_stat_replication_slots. In some cases this view shows high amount of spill_txns, spill_count and spill_bytes, which indicates that the WAL sender correspon...