On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 05:36:58PM +0200, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> That was the idea - providing pg_rotate_wal(), which would guarantee that
> the wal is rotatted at least once if called. Thinking further about this,
> for a first prove of concept, I'd be enough to write a C function
> pg_current_walsegment(). pg_rotate_wal() could then be a plpgsql function,
> that e.g. creates a temporary table, and fills it with data, until the
> return value of pg_current_walsegment() changes.
Temporary tables don't get xlogged. It would probably be easier to hook
into the xlog machinery and create NOP records, like you originally
suggested.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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