On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okey. Design clarification again; > > 0. Begin by connecting to the master using PQconnectdb() with new conninfo > option specifying the request of replication. The startup packet with the > request is sent to the master, then the backend switches to the walsender > mode. The walsender goes into the main loop and wait for the request from > the walreceiver. <snip> > 4. Start replication > > Slave -> Master: Query message, with query string "START REPLICATION: > XXXX", where XXXX is the RecPtr of the starting point. > > Master -> Slave: CopyOutResponse followed by a continuous stream of > CopyData messages with WAL contents.
Done. Currently there is no new libpq function for replication. The walreceiver uses only existing functions like PQconnectdb, PQexec, PQgetCopyData, etc. git://git.postgresql.org/git/users/fujii/postgres.git branch: replication 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
