Re: BUG #6528: pglesslog still referenced in docs, but no 9.1 support

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:11:53PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 02:07:43PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:37:09PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> (Another related tool is clearxlogtail which zeroes areas from
> >>>> WAL files when they are empty because of an early switch due to
> >>>> archive timeout).
> >>>
> >>> Should we document that?
> >>
> >> Our shop has been using that since before pglesslog existed, and
> >> it has continued to work across many major releases with no
> >> change to source code because it doesn't get down to the level of
> >> looking at the xlog records themselves, just the segment and
> >> page-level structures. I should probably put packaging that up
> >> as a proper extension and posting it to PGXN as another thing on
> >> the list of things I'll do when I stumble over that pot of round
> >> tuits at the end of the rainbow. Right now the source is on
> >> pgfoundry. If anybody wants to do anything with it before I find
> >> time, feel free.
> >
> > I was going to add a mention of this to our docs, but it seems
> > there are no released files for the project:
>
> There is a single 175 line C source file to generate a stand-alone
> executable filter. The source has not needed any changes since it
> was finished over 4 years ago. Besides that C file, there is only a
> make file. I wasn't sure what form of packaging would be easier
> than just checking out the source from the SCM.
>
> What do you think would be the right thing to do with it at this
> point?

Well, there should probably be a tar files with a README. What about
adding this to /contrib?

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