Re: Misleading error message in logical decoding for binary plugins

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Yes. The output plugin declares whether it requires the *output method*
> to support binary data. pg_logical_slot_peek_changes *can not* support
> binary data because it outputs data as
> text. pg_logical_slot_peek_binary_changes *can* support binary data
> because it returns bytea (and thus it also can output text, because
> that's essentially a subset of binary data).
>
Thanks for the explanations. This would meritate more details within the
docs, like what those two modes actually do and what the user can expect as
differences, advantages and disadvantages if he chooses one or the other
when starting decoding...
--
Michael