Re: intercepting WAL writes

From: "Mike" <mike(at)fonolo(dot)com>
To: "'Jonah H(dot) Harris'" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: intercepting WAL writes
Date: 2008-05-29 01:47:22
Message-ID: 009001c8c12d$efd67ec0$cf837c40$@com
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Mike <mike(at)fonolo(dot)com> wrote:
>> When you say a bit of decoding, is that because the data written to the
logs
>> is after the query parser/planner? Or because it's written in several
>> chunks? Or?
>
>Because that's the actual recovery record. There is no SQL text, just
>the WAL record type (XLOG_HEAP_INSERT, XLOG_HEAP_UPDATE,
>XLOG_XACT_COMMIT, ...) and the data as it relates to that operation.

Oh- right- that makes sense.

I installed and started looking at the source code for xlogviewer and
xlogdump; seems like a reasonable place to start.

Thanks for your help,

Mike

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