Re: Feature Request: pg_replication_master()

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Feature Request: pg_replication_master()
Date: 2012-12-24 15:48:17
Message-ID: 20121224154817.GA30474@momjian.us
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 03:13:59PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> I don't think that represents enough change to keep people happy, but
> I don't see anything else useful being suggested in this patch. Other
> design thoughts welcome, but personally, I think rushing this design
> through at this stage is likely to require us to change the design
> again in later releases.

Simon, you just agreed to:

> At this point, backward compatibility seems to be hampering our ability
> to move forward. I would like a vote that supports creation of a new
> method for setting up streaming replication/point-in-time-recovery,
> where backward compatibility is considered only where it is minimally
> invasive.

Let's figure out the API we want and implement it. If we haven't
figured out a perfect answer in 2 years, we never will and we should
just do our best.

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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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