On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 14:26 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Attached patch adds some more "metadata" to walsender results: > > * Adds the current xlog insert location as a third column in IDENTIFY_SYSTEM > * Adds a resultset at the start of a base backup that contains the > start xlog location (as returned by do_pg_start_backup) > * Adds a resultset at the end of a base backup that contains the end > xlog location (as returned by do_pg_stop_backup) > > These are all information that's interesting for the "log receiver" > version of pg_basebackup (the changes to BASE_BACKUP) and the > pg_streamrecv program (the IDENTIFY_SYSTEM) once integrated. > > I still haven't had the time to clean up those programs enough to > submit as a patch yet (it has progressed past that early post from a > month ago or so, but isn't done yet), but I wanted to make sure that > the backend parts gets reviewed and added as soon as possible. And > they're also quite trivial. That way if I don't find time to clean up > the streaming mode receiver in time for 9.1, it can be maintained > outside of the main tree until 9.2 - but the small backend changes > would still be required.
These things seem like subsidiary items to your other work, so they should be part of 9.1. I'd like to make a complete set of changes for this release, rather than wait another year. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers