Issue with AWS DMS continuous replication

Question

I am trying to create a DMS task to migrate data from RDS Postgres instance to S3 bucket. The full load works all fine, but the continuous replication is failing. Its giving this error:

"logical decoding requires wal_level >= logical"

When I checked the system settings from pg_settings, its showing that the setting "wal_level" has value "replica". So I tried to change the setting wal_level, but I am not able to find this setting in the Parameter Group in RDS. My RDS instance is using 9.6 version of parameters.

When I tried "ALTER SYSTEM SET wal_level TO 'logical'", it fails saying that "must be superuser to execute ALTER SYSTEM command", even though the user is under rds_superuser role.

Please suggest.

Answer 1

The Parameter name in Parameter Group is "rds.logical_replication" which needs to be changed to 1. The default value was 0.

This property changed "wal_level" value to "Logical".