Re: [PATCH 02/14] Add support for a generic wal reading facility dubbed XLogReader

On 2012-11-15 11:50:37 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > On 15.11.2012 03:17, Andres Freund wrote:
> > >
> > >Features:
> > >- streaming reading/writing
> > >- filtering
> > >- reassembly of records
> > >
> > >Reusing the ReadRecord infrastructure in situations where the code that wants
> > >to do so is not tightly integrated into xlog.c is rather hard and would require
> > >changes to rather integral parts of the recovery code which doesn't seem to be
> > >a good idea.
> > >
> > >Missing:
> > >- "compressing" the stream when removing uninteresting records
> > >- writing out correct CRCs
> > >- separating reader/writer
> >
> > I'm disappointed to see that there has been no progress on this
> > patch since last commitfest. I thought we agreed on the approach I
> > championed for here:
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-09/msg00636.php.
> > There wasn't much work left to finish that, I believe.
> >
> > Are you going to continue working on this?
>
> I worked a bit more on that patch of yours, but I neglected to submit
> it.  Did you have something in particular that you wanted changed in it?

Could you push your newest version to your git repository or similar?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

-- Andres Freund                       http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training &
Services