Re: [PATCH] Logical decoding support for sequence advances

Petr Jelinek wrote:

> I wonder if it would be acceptable to create new info flag for RM_SEQ_ID
> that would behave just like XLOG_SEQ_LOG but would be used only for the
> nontransactional updates (nextval) so that decoding could easily
> differentiate between transactional and non-transactional update of sequence
> and then just either call the callback immediately or add the change to
> reorder buffer based on that. The redo code could just have simple OR
> expression to behave same with both of the info flags.
> 
> Seems like simpler solution than building all the tracking code on the
> decoding side to me.

Given the mess in Craig's description, the new info flag sounds a much
more reasonable approach to me.

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