Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin
Date: 2019-06-05 22:50:14
Message-ID: 20190605225014.7a6fg5qkmbiqsbl2@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-06-05 18:47:57 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> So one of the things they would like added is to get not null information
> in the schema record. This is so they can mark the field Optional in Java.
> I presume this would also have some uses in other languages. As I
> understand it this would require a protocol bump. If this were to be
> accepted are there any outstanding asks that would useful to add if we were
> going to bump the protocol?

I'm pretty strongly opposed to this. What's the limiting factor when
adding such information? I think clients that want something like this
ought to query the database for catalog information when getting schema
information.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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