On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:17:20PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2017-04-25 22:13:00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 06:40:08PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > > > On 2017-04-25 21:19:41 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 06:51:47AM +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote: > > > > > Or the ability of logical decoding to follow timeline switches. > > > > > > > > When you say "logical decoding", you don't mean contrib/test_decoding? > > > > > > No. test_decoding is just an example output plugin ("formatting" the > > > changes), but there's in-production users of logical decoding out > > > there. So features adding to logical decoding in general, are worth to > > > be mention in general. > > > > Yes, but I am still trying to find out what changed because we don't > > ship much that does "decoding" except contrib/test_decoding. Are you > > saying logical information is included in WAL? > > We ship an extension API [1] [2] that allows to use decoding. And that > the internals of that API now knows how to deal with timeline changes. > You could e.g. compare it with the FDW API now providing the ability to > do aggregate pushdown or such.
Yes, if we changed the developer-visible API we should mention that in the release notes. > > > >> I also wonder if ability to run SQL queries on walsender connected to a > > > >> database is worth mentioning (replication=database kind of connection). > > Yes, but we're still discussing the feature's exact look nearby. OK, please keep us up-to-date on what needs to be added. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers