Re: replicating DDL statements

Ed L. wrote:
> On Friday March 7 2003 6:21, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 06:08:27PM -0700, Ed L. wrote:
> > > I read that PG-R does not replicate DDL statements.  Does eRServer?
> >
> > I know this is also no help, since it's vapour right now, but there
> > was some talk a while back of using the PITR mechanism that is
> > proposed to do a kind of async replication, too.  It would
> > _certainly_ capture DDL (and everything else which committed).  Of
> > course, AFAIK it doesn't exist yet.
>
> If it's not too complex for a short answer, could you or someone else share
> thoughts on how PITR would facilitate async replication?

PITR archives WAL changes.  You could pass those to another server and
re-execute those changes.

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