{"id":1235,"date":"2024-01-31T22:08:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T22:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2024-01-31T22:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T22:10:31","slug":"qlik-replicate-wheres-my-slots-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftcookcode.com\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Qlik Replicate \u2013\u00a0Where’s my slots gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Qlik Replicate is growing rapidly in our organisation.<\/p>

Starting with one \u201cProof of concept\u201d server in DTL; we are now up to seventeen<\/i>.\u00a0 A mixture of development, test, performance testing servers on OnPrem and in the AWS and GCS cloud; depending where the source database is located.<\/p>

With trying to keep things neat and organised; we are constantly moving QR tasks from one server to another.\u00a0<\/p>

Anyway the Juniors came to me with the following error message when they were shifting a QR task with a AWS RDS postgres source:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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2024<\/code>-<\/code>01<\/code>-31T16:<\/code>39<\/code>:<\/code>38<\/code>\u00a0[SOURCE_CAPTURE\u00a0 ]E:\u00a0 Can't resume task after replication slot was dropped. [<\/code>1020101<\/code>]\u00a0 (postgres_endpoint_capture.c:<\/code>444<\/code>)<\/code><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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From my understanding (I wasn\u2019t babysitting their process); they exported the old task out with Endpoints and then reimported it into the new server.\u00a0 They re-entered the passwords for the end points and then try to resume from the stream position of the old task.<\/p>

I couldn\u2019t fault that logic.<\/p>

As a test we cloned that task on the same server and made the target endpoint as a NULL.<\/p>

With this test task we could<\/p>

  1. Start the task from scratch<\/li>
  2. Resume it from the stream position that the old task got up to<\/li><\/ol>

    This proved that the new server had no issues contacting the database and resuming from a position on the postgres database.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    In the end I guessed that there was a problem with the replication slot (or lack of) for that task on the postgres server; not sure specifically but it was looking for something that it didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>

    I worked out the following steps to resolve the problem:<\/p>

    1. Change the task\u2019s target endpoint to a NULL <\/i><\/b>connector.<\/li>
    2. Start the task with the \u201cReload Target\u201d option.<\/li>
    3. Wait until the task has done the \u201cFull load\u201d and has entered CDC mode.<\/li>
    4. Stop the task and change the target endpoint back to the original end point.<\/li>
    5. Start the task again with \u201cAdvance Run Options\u201d and resume from the \u201cSource change position\u201d of the original taks.<\/li><\/ol>

      The task should now be happy<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Qlik Replicate is growing rapidly in our organisation. Starting with one \u201cProof of concept\u201d server in DTL; we are now up to seventeen.  A mixture of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qlik-replicate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t