On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Mike <mike@fonolo.com> wrote:
>> When you say a bit of decoding, is that because the data written to the
logs
>> is after the query parser/planner? Or because it's written in several
>> chunks? Or?
>
>Because that's the actual recovery record. There is no SQL text, just
>the WAL record type (XLOG_HEAP_INSERT, XLOG_HEAP_UPDATE,
>XLOG_XACT_COMMIT, ...) and the data as it relates to that operation.
Oh- right- that makes sense.
I installed and started looking at the source code for xlogviewer and
xlogdump; seems like a reasonable place to start.
Thanks for your help,
Mike
