On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Hannu Krosing <hannu@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. :-(
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