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

Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>

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From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
To: Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, satyanarlapuram@gmail.com, marvin_liang@qq.com, actyzhang@outlook.com, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-11-18T13:13:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:43 AM Bharath Rupireddy <
bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Looking at the proposed API from the initial email, I like that there's
> > both stats functionality and WAL record inspection functionality
> > (similar to pg_waldump). I like that there's the ability to pull the
> > records as raw bytea data, however I think we're also going to want an
> > ability in v1 of the patch to decode it (similar to pageinspect
> > heap_page_item_attrs, etc).
>
> I'm yet to start working on the patch. I will be doing it soon.

Thanks all. Here's the v1 patch set for the new extension pg_walinspect.
Note that I didn't include the documentation part now, I will be doing it a
bit later.

Please feel free to review and provide your thoughts.

Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.

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.