Re: Pluggable Indexes

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 13:51 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 09:57 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> > I agree we need an external module and I learned that lesson from the
> > earier API proposal you mentioned. The supplied WAL filter plugin was/is
> > a valid use for this and, as discussed, is the only practical way of
> > doing WAL filtering. As I said, am happy to make a few mods to make that
> > more acceptable.
>
> I can change the contrib plugin to show how to exclude DROP DATABASE and
> DROP TABLESPACE records, which is a common recovery scenario.
>
> I'll produce the table filter plugin and release it to pgfoundry. We
> currently have everything we need to make that work, AFAICS.

On reflection, I'm not going to do those things.

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