Re: Stream consistent snapshot via a logical decoding plugin as a series of INSERTs

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Stream consistent snapshot via a logical decoding plugin as a series of INSERTs
Date: 2016-01-15 10:08:30
Message-ID: CANP8+jJcoCEPYe9TF01PNequemT_-NQET5fX1TB1tqaYYrD1cg@mail.gmail.com
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On 15 January 2016 at 08:30, Shulgin, Oleksandr <
oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de> wrote:

> I'd like to propose generic functions (probably in an extension, or in
> core if not possible otherwise) to facilitate streaming existing data from
> the database *in the same format* that one would get if these would be the
> changes decoded by a logical decoding plugin.
>
> The idea is to use a snapshot returned from CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT
> command of the replication protocol to get a consistent snapshot of the
> database, then start listening to new changes on the slot.
>

It sounds like this is already possible.

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