Re: Read data from WAL

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Baldur Þór Emilsson <baldur(at)baldur(dot)biz>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Read data from WAL
Date: 2013-07-15 12:59:56
Message-ID: CAEYLb_VbN-r5dLha-64=bHkSWqRu1R3yLs1euH=DTuAJuePqXg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Baldur Þór Emilsson <baldur(at)baldur(dot)biz> wrote:
> Are there any projects or standard procedures for reading the data from the
> WAL to get a change log for the database (or without the WAL, using some
> other method)? I have searched for information about this quite thoroughly
> without luck, so I thought I'd try asking here before I started to patch
> Postgres :)

I think that pg_xlogdump is what you're looking for:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/pgxlogdump.html

It only became available with Postgres 9.3. On prior versions, you can use:

https://github.com/snaga/xlogdump

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Regards,
Peter Geoghegan

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