Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >> Why not have a specific protocol message to indicate a change of filename? >> I don't mean a WAL message, I mean a streaming protocol message. > > That we could have, and it would work as long as it's always sent as > the first packet in any stream. > > If we do that, we should probably make it a general metadata package - > including things like segment size as well...
I think this could be made an opt-in: the streaming client would have to ask for it when connecting to the walsender (or maybe whenever in the connection stream, I don't know). Then it can even be backported, and it won't add anything to core clients streaming data. Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
