Re: finding changed blocks using WAL scanning

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: finding changed blocks using WAL scanning
Date: 2019-04-20 13:18:32
Message-ID: 20190420131832.otoasomzfvxvbymg@momjian.us
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 12:21:36AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> As to that, what I'm proposing here is no different than what we are
> already doing with physical and logical replication, except that it's
> probably a bit cheaper. Physical replication reads all the WAL and
> sends it all out over the network. Logical replication reads all the
> WAL, does a bunch of computation, and then sends the results, possibly
> filtered, out over the network. This would read the WAL and then
> write a relatively small file to your local disk.
>
> I think the impact will be about the same as having one additional
> standby, give or take.

Good point.

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