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I have a multi-az postgres 16.8 setup with a read replica which i want to offload cdc to.

However, I understand you can create replication slots automatically if you create a subscription on the read replica.

Is it possible to manually create a replication slots on the read replica that can be consumed by a third party source like google datastream which specifically requires a replication slot. Thank you.