From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Steve Singer <steve(at)ssinger(dot)info>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Replication identifiers, take 3 |
Date: | 2014-09-26 14:55:47 |
Message-ID: | 20140926145547.GC7550@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-09-26 10:40:37 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > As explained above this isn't happening on the level of individual AMs.
>
> Well, that's even worse. You want to grab 100% of the available
> generic bitspace applicable to all record types for purposes specific
> to logical decoding (and it's still not really enough bits).
I don't think that's a fair characterization. Right now it's available
to precisely nobody. You can't put any data in there in *any* way. It
just has been sitting around unused for at least 8 years.
> One question I have is what the structure of the names should be. It
> seems some coordination could be needed here. I mean, suppose BDR
> uses bdr:$NODENAME and Slony uses
> $SLONY_CLUSTER_NAME:$SLONY_INSTANCE_NAME and EDB's xDB replication
> server uses xdb__$NODE_NAME. That seems like it would be sad. Maybe
> we should decide that names ought to be of the form
> <replication-solution>.<further-period-separated-components> or
> something like that.
I've also wondered about that. Perhaps we simply should have an
additional 'name' column indicating the replication solution?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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