On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > If this was earlier in the release cycle, I'd feel happier. > > 2.5 months before beta is the wrong time to re-design the crash recovery > data format, especially because its only "a bit awkward". We're bound to > break something unforeseen and not have time to fix it. If you were > telling me "impossible", I'd be all ears.
To avoid the harmful effect on the existing feature, how about introducing new function which reads WAL records in byte level for Streaming Replication? ISTM that making one function ReadRecord cover several cases (a crash recovery and replication) would increase complexity. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers