On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 08:26:08PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > > > > I do not personally believe that a WAL decoding solution adequate to > > > > drive logical replication can live outside of core, at least not > > > > unless core exposes a whole lot more interface than we do now, and > > > > probably not even then. Even if it could, I don't see the case for > > > > making every replication solution reinvent that wheel. It's a big > > > > wheel to be reinventing, and everyone needs pretty much the same > > > > thing. > > > > > > Unsurprisingly I aggree. > > > > > > > That having been said, I have to agree that the people working on this > > > > project seem to be wearing rose-colored glasses when it comes to the > > > > difficulty of implementing a full-fledged solution in core. > > > > > > That very well might be true. Sometimes rose-colored glasses can be quite > > > productive in getting something started... > > > > > > Note at this point were only want wal decoding, background workers and > > > related things to get integrated... > > > > Well, TODO does have: > > > > Move pgfoundry's xlogdump to /contrib and have it rely more closely on > > the WAL backend code > > Uhm. How does that relate to my statement? > > The xlogreader code I submitted does contain a very small POC xlogdump with > almost no code duplication. It needs some work to be really useful though.
I just meant that dumping xlog contents is something we want to improve. > > I think Robert is right that if Slony can't use the API, it is unlikely > > any other replication system could use it. > > I aggree and I don't think I have ever said something contrary. I just don't > want to be the only one working on slony integration. I am ready to do a good > part of that, but somebody with slony experience needs to help, especially on > consuming those changes. Agreed. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers