Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user

On 5/28/2010 7:19 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> >> Reading the entire WAL just to find all COMMIT records, then go back to
>> >> the origin database to get the actual replication log you're looking for
>> >> is simpler and more efficient? I don't think so.
>> >
>> > Agreed, but I think I've not explained myself well enough.
>> >
>> > I proposed two completely separate ideas; the first one was this:
>> >
>> > If you must get commit order, get it from WAL on *origin*, using exact
>> > same code that current WALSender provides, plus some logic to read
>> > through the WAL records and extract commit/aborts. That seems much
>> > simpler than the proposal you outlined and as SR shows, its low latency
>> > as well since commits write to WAL. No need to generate event ticks
>> > either, just use XLogRecPtrs as WALSender already does.
>> >
>> > I see no problem with integrating that into core, technically or
>> > philosophically.
>> >
>>
>> Which means that if I want to allow a consumer of that commit order data
>> to go offline for three days or so to replicate the 5 requested, low
>> volume tables, the origin needs to hang on to the entire WAL log from
>> all 100 other high volume tables?
>
> I suggest writing an external tool that strips out what you need that
> can be run at any time, rather than creating a new data format and
> overhead for this usecase.
>

Stripping it out from what?

Jan

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