I mixed up my email threads. I was following http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-4-feature-highlight-logical-replication-protocol/
Looking back at it now, I can see that it didn't use psql to call START_REPLICATION. On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 2015-01-10 10:24:56 -0800, Brent Tubbs wrote: > > That's working! The blog posts I linked earlier > > Which blogpost is that? At least this thread doesn't seem to contain a > reference. > > > made me think that I had to explicitly call START_REPLICATION, but I > > guess that's not necessary? > > START_REPLICATION over a replication connection is the streaming variant > of logical decoding. Unfortunately psql can't deal with that (and it > doesn't make sense to support it, as you need to send back feedback > messages and such). The SQL function Michael linked to are there for > easier accessibility, but don't support streaming. Other than that, > they're the same. > > Hope that clears up things a bit? > > Greetings, > > Andres Freund > > -- > Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services >
