Re: streamlined standby procedure

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:11:07PM +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> pg_wal (
>   name text,
>   walrecords blob,
>   iscurrent boolean
> )
ISTM that a current_wal_file() function would be better than a boolean
on the view...

> So, all this said, I'm not too familiar with either C programming or the
> postgres sources, but I'm willing to learn. And the project as a whole
> seems a bit too much to do it in one piece, so my first aim is to expose
> the WAL records in a system view.

Seems a reasonable place to start. IMO there's a lot more info that
could be exposed through system views than is currently being done.
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