Re: pg_replslotdata - a tool for displaying replication slot information

On 12/5/21, 11:10 PM, "Michael Paquier" <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 08:32:08AM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 4:22 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>>>> I don't have any other compelling use- cases at the moment, but I will say
>>>> that it is typically nice from an administrative standpoint to be able to
>>>> inspect things like this without logging into a running server.
>>>
>>> Weighed against the cost of maintaining (including documentation) a separate
>>> tool this doesn't seem sufficient reason.
>> 
>> IMHO, this shouldn't be a reason to not get something useful (useful
>> IMO and few others in this thread) into the core. The maintenance of
>> the tools generally is low compared to the core server features once
>> they get reviewed and committed.
>
> Well, a bit less maintenance is always better than more maintenance.
> An extra cost that you may be missing is related to the translation of
> the documentation, as well as the translation of any new strings this
> would require.  FWIW, I don't directly see a use for this tool that
> could not be solved with an online server.

Bharath, perhaps you should maintain this outside of core PostgreSQL
for now.  If some compelling use-cases ever surface that make it seem
worth the added maintenance burden, this thread could probably be
revisited.

Nathan