>>> I can't find any doc's on what happens to replication data collected by
>>> triggers -
>>>
>>> 1) when will it be deleted (both on master and on replicating slaves)
>>> 2) in what cases is it kept on slave side
>>
>> Loosely speaking, it is deleted until it is not needed anymore by any of
>> the subscribers for a given node.
>
> So there will be relatively little overhead little overhead if I SUBSCRIBE
> SET with FORWARD=YES even if not planning to start replicating from it
> immediately ?

And another thing - is it possible to change FORWARD state later ?

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Hannu