Re: pg_walinspect - a new extension to get raw WAL data and WAL stats

On Wed, Sep  8, 2021 at 07:18:08PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While working on one of the internal features, we found that it is a
> bit difficult to run pg_waldump for a normal user to know WAL info and
> stats of a running postgres database instance in the cloud. Many a
> times users or DBAs or developers would want to get and analyze
> following:

Uh, are we going to implement everything that is only available at the
command line as an extension just for people who are using managed cloud
services where the command line is not available and the cloud provider
has not made that information accessible?  Seems like this might lead to
a lot of duplicated effort.

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