Re: speed up a logical replica setup

On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 10:00:39PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Speaking of which, would it make sense to put this tool (whatever the name)
> into the pg_basebackup directory? It's sort of related, and it also shares
> some code.

I've read the patch, and the additions to streamutil.h and
streamutil.c make it kind of natural to have it sit in pg_basebackup/.
There's pg_recvlogical already there. I am wondering about two
things, though:
- Should the subdirectory pg_basebackup be renamed into something more
generic at this point? All these things are frontend tools that deal
in some way with the replication protocol to do their work. Say
a replication_tools?
- And if it would be better to refactor some of the code generic to
all these streaming tools to fe_utils. What makes streamutil.h a bit
less pluggable are all its extern variables to control the connection,
but perhaps that can be an advantage, as well, in some cases.
--
Michael