Re: Changeset Extraction v7.6.1

On 2014-02-17 18:49:59 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What I actually suspect is going to happen if we ship this as-is is
> > that people are going to start building logical replication solutions
> > on top of the test_decoding module even though it explicitly says that
> > it's just test code.  This is *really* cool technology and people are
> > *hungry* for it.  But writing C is hard, so if there's not a polished
> > plugin available, I bet people are going to try to use the
> > not-polished one.  I think we try to get out ahead of that.
> 
> Tom made a comparison with FDWs, so I'll make another. The Multicorn
> module made FDW authorship much more accessible by wrapping it in a
> Python interface, I believe with some success. I don't want to stand
> in the way of building a fully-featured test_decoding module, but I
> think that those that would misuse test_decoding as it currently
> stands can be redirected to a third-party wrapper. As you say, it's
> pretty cool stuff, so it seems likely that someone will build one for
> us.

Absolutely. I *sure* hope somebody is going to build such an
abstraction. I am not entirely sure how it'd look like, but ...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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