Re: HOOKS for Synchronous Replication?

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:33:59AM -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 20:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > > Anyone remember this patch?
> > > http://gorda.di.uminho.pt/community/pgsqlhooks/
> > > The discussion seems to be pretty minimal:
> > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-06/msg00859.php
> > > Does anyone see a need to investigate it further?
> >
> > I had hoped to see some comments from the Slony people about it.
> > I'd feel better about the validity of a set of hooks if more than
> > one project agreed that it was useful/appropriate ...
>
> I missed seeing it all together the first time through, I'll see what I can do
> about taking a indepth look at it over the next few days and provide some
> feedback.

While this code might be useful, whouldn't it be much more valuable to
provide hooks into xlog so that we could do non-trigger-based
replication? (As well as non-trigger-based materialized views...)
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