Re: Logical decoding output plug-in questions

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Logical decoding output plug-in questions
Date: 2015-01-26 23:42:18
Message-ID: 20150126234217.GC4655@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-01-26 15:35:39 -0800, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > What's in the old tuple depends on the configured replica identity.
>
> My apologies, but... "configured replica identity"?

Search for "postgres" and "replica identity".

> > The <literal>is_init</literal> parameter will be true when the
> > replication slot is being created [...]
>
> Thanks! I suppose my question then is: Besides slot creation, when is pg_decode_startup called?

Whenever changes from a slot are starting to be consumed. I.e. when you
call one of the SQL functions pg_logical_slot_*_changes or when the
walsender receives a START_LOGICAL_REPLICATION.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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