Re: pg_receivewal - couple of improvements

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_receivewal - couple of improvements
Date: 2022-02-02 15:35:27
Message-ID: 20220202153527.za4kirfsuu7l2f4z@jrouhaud
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Hi,

On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 08:53:13PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
>
> Here are some improvements we can make to pg_receivewal that were
> emanated after working with it in production environments:
>
> 1) As a user, I, sometimes, want my pg_receivewal to start streaming
> from the LSN that I provide as an input i.e. startpos instead of it
> calculating the stream start position 1) from its target directory or
> 2) from its replication slot's restart_lsn or 3) after sending
> IDENTIFY_SYSTEM on to the primary.

This is already being discussed (at least part of) as of
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/18708360.4lzOvYHigE%40aivenronan.

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