Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make CheckRequiredParameterValues() depend upon correct

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-04-28T09:22:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:27 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> It's hard to picture what the future options might be like. Someone
> had
> an idea years ago (you even?) to add more information like table names
> or primary keys to the WAL records, to make it easier to scrape
> information from the WAL for 3rd party replication solutions. Like
> feeding a slony replica from the WAL. Or maybe we'd want to fold
> full_page_writes to the new GUC.

Yeh, lots of ideas for adding value to WAL. WAL can be considered a
transport solution with many potential uses and properties.

I haven't ever suggested adding something that would only be available
to 3rd party solutions, perhaps that information was garbled. Yes, I did
suggest that Slony might use a WAL transport in future, as an option.

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 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com