On 2015-01-09 10:48:39 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > It would nevertheless be handy to be able to do more stuff in a replication > connection. For example, you might want to run functions like > pg_create_restore_point(), pg_xlog_replay_pause/resume etc. in a replication > connection. We should extend the replication protocol to allow such things. > I'm not sure what it would look like; we can't run arbitrary queries when > not being connected to a database, or arbitrary functions, but there are a > lot of functions that would make sense.
Well, it's possible now to have replication connections connect to a database if you choose now (replication=database dbname=...). We could just add e.g. the fastpath function interface and add allow a couple of builtin functions to be called. That'd probably be fairly simple. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
