Re: [PATCH] Teach pg_waldump to extract FPIs from the WAL

From: David Christensen <david(dot)christensen(at)crunchydata(dot)com>
To: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bdrouvot(at)amazon(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach pg_waldump to extract FPIs from the WAL
Date: 2022-04-25 15:12:17
Message-ID: CAOxo6XJhtWfd=3_XXbMkAyF8qmVJ3HLXBq_oLJr0_cKgX-Dkhg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 2:00 AM Drouvot, Bertrand <bdrouvot(at)amazon(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 4/25/22 8:11 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 01:43:36PM -0500, David Christensen wrote:
> >> Hi Matthias, great point. Enclosed is a revised version of the patch
> >> that adds the fork identifier to the end if it's a non-main fork.
> > Like Alvaro, I have seen cases where this would have been really
> > handy. So +1 from me, as well, to have more tooling like what you are
> > proposing.
>
> +1 on the idea.
>
> FWIW, there is an extension doing this [1] but having the feature
> included in pg_waldump would be great.

Cool, glad to see there is some interest; definitely some overlap in
forensics inside and outside the database both, as there are different
use cases for both.

David

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