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Re: [PATCH] XLogReader v2

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga@uptime.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, satoshi.nagayasu@gmail.com
Date: 2012-07-23T14:17:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 19, 2012 07:18:08 PM Satoshi Nagayasu wrote:
>> I agree with that we need more sophisticated way to share the code
>> between the backend and several utilities (including xlogdump),
>> but AFAIK, a contrib module must allow to be built *without* the core
>> source tree.
> I don't think thats reasonable. The amount of code duplication required to
> support that usecase is just not reasonable. Especially if you want to support
> pre 9.3 and 9.3+.

It seems like the direction this is going is that the xlog reading
stuff should be a library which is used by both the backend and 1 or
more xlog decoding tools.

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Robert Haas
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