Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin

Hi,

On 2019-06-05 18:47:57 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> So one of the things they would like added is to get not null information
> in the schema record. This is so they can mark the field Optional in Java.
> I presume this would also have some uses in other languages. As I
> understand it this would require a protocol bump. If this were to be
> accepted are there any outstanding asks that would useful to add if we were
> going to bump the protocol?

I'm pretty strongly opposed to this. What's the limiting factor when
adding such information? I think clients that want something like this
ought to query the database for catalog information when getting schema
information.

Greetings,

Andres Freund