Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Hannu Krosing <ha...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> So you basically need a large part of postgres for reliably making sense
>> of WAL.
> Agreed, but I think that's a problem we need to fix and not a
> tolerable situation at all. If a user can create a type-output
> function that goes and looks at the state of the database to determine
> what to output, then we are completely screwed, because that basically
> means you would need to have a whole Hot Standby instance up and
> running just to make it possible to run type output functions.
You mean like enum_out? Or for that matter array_out, record_out,
range_out?
regards, tom lane
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