On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Hannu Krosing <ha...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >>> So you basically need a large part of postgres for reliably making sense >>> of WAL. > >> Agreed, but I think that's a problem we need to fix and not a >> tolerable situation at all. If a user can create a type-output >> function that goes and looks at the state of the database to determine >> what to output, then we are completely screwed, because that basically >> means you would need to have a whole Hot Standby instance up and >> running just to make it possible to run type output functions. > > You mean like enum_out? Or for that matter array_out, record_out, > range_out?
Yeah, exactly. :-( -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
