Re: Built-in plugin for logical decoding output

On 25/09/17 19:48, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 09/25/2017 10:43 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2017-09-25 10:38:52 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> On 09/25/2017 10:32 AM, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>>>> On 25/09/17 19:26, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> Alvaro Hernandez <aht(at)ongres(dot)com> writes:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is already about 3 million output plugins out there so I think we
>>>> did reasonable job there. The fact that vast majority of that are
>>>> various json ones gives reasonable hint that we should have that one in
>>>> core though.
>>>
>>> And I am sure that 2ndQuadrant would be happy to add it to their
>>> version of
>>> Postgres and maintain it themselves.
>>>
>>> https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/2ndqpostgres/
>>
>> This doesn't seem like a good way to argue.
>>
>
> Sorry, that wasn't supposed to be negative. My point was that
> 2ndQuadrant has a distribution of Postgres that they support. If
> 2ndQuadrant wants the feature, they could add it to their own without
> burdening the wider community further. It provides 2ndQuadrant what they
> are arguing for, benefits 2ndQuadrant as it increases the visibility and
> opportunity of their distribution for wider use.
>

I am not sure I follow, we do have pglogical extension which works just
fine for this, thanks. You might have noticed that it's not what I was
suggesting we use for core.

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