Re: HOOKS for Synchronous Replication?

A general purpose log miner is also useful in many other areas besides
replication.

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From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Jonah H. Harris
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:32 AM
To: Jim C. Nasby
Cc: Darcy Buskermolen; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org; Tom Lane;
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] HOOKS for Synchronous Replication?

On 12/8/05, Jim C. Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> wrote:

While this code might be useful, whouldn't it be much more
valuable to
provide hooks into xlog so that we could do non-trigger-based
replication? (As well as non-trigger-based materialized
views...)

If we're going to do hooks for replication, I think we should look at
including xlog. Trigger-based replication is an OLTP performance killer
if you're just looking to do async replication.