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Re: HOOKS for Synchronous Replication?

Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>

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From: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
Cc: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Date: 2005-12-08T19:32:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 12/8/05, Jim C. Nasby <jim@nasby.net> wrote:
>
> While this code might be useful, whouldn't it be much more valuable to
> provide hooks into xlog so that we could do non-trigger-based
> replication? (As well as non-trigger-based materialized views...)
>

If we're going to do hooks for replication, I think we should look at
including xlog.  Trigger-based replication is an OLTP performance killer if
you're just looking to do async replication.