Re: Teaching pg_receivexlog to follow timeline switches

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> Now that a standby server can follow timeline switches through streaming
> replication, we should do teach pg_receivexlog to do the same. Patch
> attached.

Is it possible to re-use walreceiver code from the backend?

I was thinking that it would actually be very useful to have the whole
replication functionality modularized and in a standalone binary that
could act as a replication proxy and WAL archiver that could run
without all the overhead of an entire PG instance.