Re: rmgr hooks (v2)

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: rmgr hooks (v2)
Date: 2009-01-21 17:54:16
Message-ID: 1232560456.2327.561.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 18:38 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > So you *must* replay catalog entries and recreate the original catalog
> > in exact synchronisation with reading WAL files. Recreating the catalog
> > can only be done by Postgres itself.
>
> The startup process doesn't have a relcache,

Yes

> so this rmgr patch is
> nowhere near enough to enable

You are way too smart not to overcome such a minor hurdle...

> that. If I understood correctly, the hot
> standby patch doesn't change that either.

No it doesn't.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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