Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> >However, there may not be nifty syntax changes nor GUCs in core to
> >support a specific implementation of a replicator.
>
> I'd love to get into that one. Some of the people who have attended my
> talk at the summit might know that I've introduced the following syntax
> to Postgres-R:
>
> ALTER DATABASE testdb START REPLICATION IN GROUP testgroup USING egcs;
>
> And I'm using the system catalogs to store replication settings. What's
> so wrong with that?
I don't know if there's anything wrong, but in Mammoth Replicator, the
syntax to enable replication of a single table is
ALTER TABLE foo ENABLE REPLICATION
and we store the replication settings in system catalogs as well.
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