Re: Documentation on Streaming Replication interface for Logical Decoding

> On 10 Nov 2015, at 05:59, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>> In section 46.3 (Streaming Replication Protocol Interface) the create command
>> for logical slots, CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT, is defined as taking “options”
>> after the LOGICAL keyword when it in fact requires the plugin name. The start
>> command is correctly listing the options but isn’t listing the required start
>> position.
>>
>> The attached patch synchronizes these command signatures with the more detailed
>> descriptions in section 50.3* (Streaming Replication Protocol).
>>
>> (*) Section number from the 9.5beta1 manual
>
> Why do we need to maintain the semantics of those commands in two
> places by the way? There is already a link to the replication protocol
> page in logicaldecoding.sgml, hence it seems to me that we had better
> just cite the command names, per se the attached.

Thats a perfectly reasonable approach as well, admittedly I don’t see much
point in the duplication.

cheers ./daniel