Re: [PATCH 8/8] Introduce wal decoding via catalog timetravel - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCH 8/8] Introduce wal decoding via catalog timetravel
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In response to Re: [PATCH 8/8] Introduce wal decoding via catalog timetravel  ("anarazel@anarazel.de" <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:34:58AM +0200, anarazel@anarazel.de wrote:
> 
> 
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> schrieb:
> 
> >On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:02:26AM +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> >> On 15 September 2012 01:39, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
> >wrote:
> >> > (0008-Introduce-wal-decoding-via-catalog-timetravel.patch)
> >> 
> >> This patch is the 8th of 8 in a patch series that covers different
> >> aspects of the bi-directional replication feature planned for
> >> PostgreSQL 9.3. For those that are unfamiliar with the BDR
> >projection,
> >> a useful summary is available in an e-mail sent to this list by Simon
> >> Riggs back in April [1]. I should also point out that Andres has made
> >
> >Does this design allow replication/communcation between clusters
> >running
> >different major versions of Postgres?
> This patchset only contains only the decoding/changeset generation part of logical replication. It provides (as in
thedebugging example) the capabilities to generate a correct textual format and thus can be used to build a solution
withsupport for cross version/arch replication as long as the text format of the used types is compatible.
 
> 
> Does that answer the question?

Yes.  This was posted so long ago I couldn't remember if that was part
of the design.

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