Re: [HACKERS] PG 10 release notes

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:12:05PM +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 25/04/17 17:01, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> >> I also wonder if ability to run SQL queries on walsender connected to a
> >> database is worth mentioning (replication=database kind of connection).
> > 
> > Uh, why would that be important to users?
> 
> Because every tool that uses logical decoding to capture changes does not
> need to open extra connection to fetch initial state.
> 
> (and we document much less user visible changes than this in the release
> notes)

Are you saying that 3rd party applications that use logical WAL records
need to know about that?  Can you provide some text?

> >> Or the ability of logical decoding to follow timeline switches.
> > 
> > I didn't think logical decoding was really more than a proof-of-concept
> > until now.
> > 
> 
> Huh?

Uh, the only logical decoding code that I know we ship pre-PG 10 is
contrib/test_decoding/.

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