On 21 June 2012 01:40, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> I think extraction is a very sensible place to start; actually, I
>> think it's the best possible place to start. But this particular
>> thread is about adding origin_ids to WAL, which I think is definitely
>> not the best place to start.
> Yep. I think the reason everyone started at it is that the patch was actually
> really simple ;).
> Note that the wal enrichement & decoding patches were before the origin_id
> patch in the patchseries ;)
Actually, I thought it would be non contentious...
A format change, so early in release cycle. Already openly discussed
with no comment. Using wasted space for efficiency, for information
already in use by Slony for similar reasons.
Oh well.
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