Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 18:50, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2019-06-05 18:47:57 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > So one of the things they would like added is to get not null information
> > in the schema record. This is so they can mark the field Optional in
> Java.
> > I presume this would also have some uses in other languages. As I
> > understand it this would require a protocol bump. If this were to be
> > accepted are there any outstanding asks that would useful to add if we
> were
> > going to bump the protocol?
>
> I'm pretty strongly opposed to this. What's the limiting factor when
> adding such information? I think clients that want something like this
> ought to query the database for catalog information when getting schema
> information.
>
>
So talking some more to the guys that want to use this for Change Data
Capture they pointed out that if the schema changes while they are offline
there is no way to query the catalog information

Dave

>