Thread: How to decode the output from pgoutput

How to decode the output from pgoutput

From
Ami Ganguli
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Hi,

I'm writing a tool to process a logical replication stream.  The intent is to use publications and subscriptions as an initial filter, and then use the replication stream to trigger external events.  So my tool should connect to the master in the same manner as a replication slave, but it does different things with the data.

So far I've used pg_recvlogical.c as a guide and I'm successfully connecting to the master, creating a replication slot, and subscribing to a couple of publications. 

But now I'm stuck at further interpreting the data.  Can anybody point me to further documentation or the right code to look at to figure out the format of the WAL data stream?

Cheers,
Ami.