Re: [PATCH 13/16] Introduction of pair of logical walreceiver/sender

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] Introduction of pair of logical walreceiver/sender
Date: 2012-06-29 15:39:09
Message-ID: 4FEDCC1D.9070005@enterprisedb.com
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On 29.06.2012 18:28, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> It would be nice if there was at least a thin layer of the sender
> portion which could by used by a stand-alone program. I can think
> of lots of useful reasons to "T" the WAL stream -- passing through
> the stream with little or no modification to at least one side. As
> just one example, I would like a program to write traditional WAL
> files to match what an archive on the sending side would look like
> while passing the stream through to an asynchronous hot standby.

That isn't really related to the logical replication stuff, but I agree
that would be cool. You can sort of do that with cascading replication,
but a thin stand-alone program would be nicer.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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