On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 05:05:10PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> I'd go further than that myself: I haven't had any use for FPIs at
> all. If I was going to do something with FPIs then I'd just use
> pg_waldump, since I'd likely want to get them onto the filesystem for
> analysis anyway. (Just my experience.)
FWIW, being able to get access to raw FPIs with a SQL interface is
useful if you cannot log into the host, which is something that a lot
of cloud providers don't allow, and not everybody is able to have
access to archived WAL segments in a different host.
--
Michael