Re: Plans for 8.4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Plans for 8.4
Date
Msg-id 1216765081.3894.517.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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In response to Re: Plans for 8.4  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 16:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:37 +0200, Markus Wanner wrote:
> >> What is it you 
> >> are talking about?
> 
> > Reconstructing SQL from WAL, allowing logical apply.
> > ...
> > I'm proposing to put the mechanisms in place to allow WAL to be used by
> > other replication projects. Which turn out to be relatively small
> > changes to the main server.
> 
> [ retrieves eyebrows from ceiling... ]  I doubt that's even possible,
> let alone a "relatively small change".

I'm talking about building the transport layer into Postgres core only. 
SMOP outside of core, with the right changes.

There's always potential blockers to any problem. We'll see when I
publish the design.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support



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