Re: Streaming replication and non-blocking I/O

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> I think we can just use load_external_function() to load the library and
> call WalReceiverMain from AuxiliaryProcessMain(). Ie. hard-code the
> library name. Walreceiver is quite tightly coupled with the rest of the
> backend anyway, so I don't think we need to come up with a pluggable API
> at the moment.
>
> That's the way I did it yesterday, see 'replication' branch in my git
> repository, but it looks like I fumbled the commit so that some of the
> changes were committed as part of the merge commit with origin/master
> (=CVS HEAD). Sorry about that.

Umm.., I still cannot find the place where the walreceiver module is
loaded by using load_external_function() in your 'replication' branch.
Also the compilation of that branch fails. Is the 'pushed' branch the
latest? Sorry if I'm missing something.

Regards,

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