Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:22:41 -0400 (EDT) Greg Smith wrote:

> On Fri, 30 May 2008, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> 
> > Then you ship 16 MB binary stuff every 30 second or every minute but
> > you only have some kbyte real data in the logfile.
> 
> Not if you use pg_clearxlogtail ( 
> http://www.2ndquadrant.com/replication.htm ), which got lost in the giant 
> March commitfest queue but should probably wander into contrib as part of 
> 8.4.

Yes, this topic was discussed several times in the past but to
solve this it needs a patch/solution which is integrated into PG
itself, not contrib.


Kind regards

--             Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group