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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram@gmail.com>, marvin_liang@qq.com, actyzhang@outlook.com
Date: 2022-03-10T20:00:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:22 AM Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> * Can we mark this extension 'trusted'? I'm not 100% clear on the
> standards for that marker, but it seems reasonable for a database owner
> with the right privileges might want to install it.

I'm not clear on the standard either, exactly, but might not that
allow the database owner to get a peek at what's happening in other
databases?

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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.