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Re: Streaming replication and non-blocking I/O

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-14T19:05:30Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> BTW, something that's been bothering me a bit with this patch is that we
>> now have to link the backend with libpq. I don't see an immediate
>> problem with that, but I'm not a packager. Does anyone see a problem
>> with that?
> 
> Yeah, I have a problem with that.  What's the backend doing with libpq?
> It's not receiving this data, it's sending it.

walreceiver is a postmaster subprocess too.

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