Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin
Date: 2020-07-14 23:46:52
Message-ID: 3023156.1594770412@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> There's also send/receive functions that do not work across systems,
> unfortunately :(. In particular record and array send functions embed
> type oids and their receive functions verify that they match the local
> system. Which basically means that if there's any difference in oid
> assignment order between two systems that they will not allow to
> send/recv such data between them :(.

It's not a problem particularly for built-in types, but I agree
there's an issue for extension types.

> I've several times suggested that we should remove those type checks in
> recv, as they afaict don't provide any actual value. But unfortunately
> there hasn't been much response to that. See e.g.
> https://postgr.es/m/20160426001713.hbqdiwvf4mkzkg55%40alap3.anarazel.de

Maybe we could compromise by omitting the check if both OIDs are
outside the built-in range?

regards, tom lane

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