Re: Visibility Groups

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Visibility Groups
Date: 2008-08-07 16:44:00
Message-ID: 87prokixm7.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:

> Gregory Stark wrote:
>
>> I think Simon's interface was overly complex but if we can simplify it then it
>> could be useful. As Grittner mentioned implicit queries could make use of it
>> automatically. Also pg_dump or Slony could make use of it automatically.
>
> Hmm, what use would it have for pg_dump? Normally, when it is a
> problem, you want access to a large set of tables, frequently all of
> them.

Well pg_dump -t or pg_restore -L

For that matter pg_restore generally knows it's not going to access any
existing tables that don't match the tables it's restoring...

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Gregory Stark
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