On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 15 January 2016 at 08:30, Shulgin, Oleksandr < > oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de> wrote: > > >> I'd like to propose generic functions (probably in an extension, or in >> core if not possible otherwise) to facilitate streaming existing data from >> the database *in the same format* that one would get if these would be the >> changes decoded by a logical decoding plugin. >> >> The idea is to use a snapshot returned from CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT >> command of the replication protocol to get a consistent snapshot of the >> database, then start listening to new changes on the slot. >> > > It sounds like this is already possible. > Totally, that's how it was supposed to be used anyway. What is missing IMO is retrieving the initial snapshot in the same format as that the later changes will arrive. -- Alex
