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

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, satyanarlapuram@gmail.com, marvin_liang@qq.com, actyzhang@outlook.com, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-10-06T00:38:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Oct  5, 2021 at 06:22:19PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> On 10/05/21 18:07, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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
> 
> One extension that runs a curated menu of command-line tools for you
> and returns their stdout?

Yes, that would make sense, and something the cloud service providers
would write.

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Commits

  1. Doc build fix: remove tab from filelist.sgml.

  2. Add contrib/pg_walinspect.

  3. Simplify SRFs using materialize mode in contrib/ modules

  4. Invent "trusted" extensions, and remove the pg_pltemplate catalog.