Re: Re: xReader, double-effort (was: Temporary tables under hot standby)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Aakash Goel <aakash(dot)bits(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: xReader, double-effort (was: Temporary tables under hot standby)
Date: 2012-04-30 03:29:32
Message-ID: 2856.1335756572@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> So you basically need a large part of postgres for reliably making sense
>> of WAL.

> Agreed, but I think that's a problem we need to fix and not a
> tolerable situation at all. If a user can create a type-output
> function that goes and looks at the state of the database to determine
> what to output, then we are completely screwed, because that basically
> means you would need to have a whole Hot Standby instance up and
> running just to make it possible to run type output functions.

You mean like enum_out? Or for that matter array_out, record_out,
range_out?

regards, tom lane

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