Re: Refactoring of replication commands using printsimple

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> This is a follow up of the refactoring that has been discussed in the
> thread to increase the default size of WAL segments:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQ4hyNrLq+W1JrrYVSySOxuQa40PYb2Uw5UQkKaG4hong@mail.gmail.com
>
> The discussion has resulted in the creation of a84069d9 that has
> introduced a new DestReceiver method called printsimple that does not
> need any catalog access. After some investigation, I have noticed that
> a couple of messages used in the replication protocol could be
> refactored as well:
> - IDENTIFY_SYSTEM
> - TIMELINE_HISTORY
> - CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT
> This results in the following code reduction:
> 3 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)
>
> A commit fest entry has been created:
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/978/

Sorry, I have a little more nitpicking. How about having
printsimple() use pq_sendcountedtext() instead of pq_sendint()
followed by pq_sendbytes(), as it does for TEXTOID?

Other than that, this looks fine to me now.

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