On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 01:02:34PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> I still maintain that adding restrictions here is a bad idea. Even
> disregarding the discussion of running normal queries interspersed, it's
> useful to be able to both request WAL and receive logical changes over
> the same connection. E.g. for creating a logical replica by first doing
> a physical base backup (vastly faster), or fetching WAL for decoding
> large transactions onto a standby.
>
> And I just don't see any reasons to disallow it. There's basically no
> reduction in complexity by doing so.
Yeah, I still stand by the same opinion here to do nothing. I suspect
that we have good chances to annoy people and some cases we are
overlooking here, that used to work.
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Michael