On 2020-Jun-05, Dave Cramer wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 19:46, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> > wrote:
> > Ouch ... so they made IDENT in the replication grammar be a trigger to > > enter the regular grammar. Crazy. No way to put those worms back in > > the tin now, I guess. > > Is that documented ? I don't think it is. > > It is still my opinion that we should prohibit a logical replication > > connection from being used to do physical replication. Horiguchi-san, > > Sawada-san and Masao-san are all of the same opinion. Dave Cramer (of > > the JDBC team) is not opposed to the change -- he says they're just > > using it because they didn't realize they should be doing differently. > > I think my exact words were > > "I don't see this is a valid reason to keep doing something. If it is > broken then fix it. > Clients can deal with the change." > > in response to: > > > Well, I don't really think that we can just break a behavior that > > exists since 9.4 as you could break applications relying on the > > existing behavior, and that's also the point of Vladimir upthread. > > Which is different than not being opposed to the change. I don't see this > as broken, and it's quite possible that some of our users are using > it. Apologies for misinterpreting. > It certainly needs to be documented I'd rather not. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services