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Re: Make pgoutput documentation easier to find

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

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From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
To: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Cc: "pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-08-14T16:10:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs 
On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)
<kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Since pgoutput can only generate the binary output, it pg_logical_slot_get_changes()
> cannot be used with this plugin. I felt this should be also documented.

OK, I added this note in the 0002 patch attached earlier.


> Another point: test_decoding does not have descriptions for their options neither.
> Should we also add as well?

Yes, I think it's worth doing this (but it's better to do as a separate patch).
TBH this was already on my TODO list.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao

Commits

  1. doc: Improve pgoutput documentation.

  2. doc: Improve documentation discoverability for pgoutput.

  3. Use PG_MODULE_MAGIC_EXT in our installable shared libraries.