Re: Teaching pg_receivexlog to follow timeline switches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Phil Sorber
Subject Re: Teaching pg_receivexlog to follow timeline switches
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Msg-id CADAkt-gok5P2UcKha02k3cXt4C7iPdruaeA3TeG0-3KC27sjhA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Teaching pg_receivexlog to follow timeline switches  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> Now that a standby server can follow timeline switches through streaming
> replication, we should do teach pg_receivexlog to do the same. Patch
> attached.

Is it possible to re-use walreceiver code from the backend?

I was thinking that it would actually be very useful to have the whole
replication functionality modularized and in a standalone binary that
could act as a replication proxy and WAL archiver that could run
without all the overhead of an entire PG instance.



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