Re: system views for walsender activity

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Let's discuss what the best possible user interface for the information 
> would be first, and then decide if we need/want to force an initdb for 
> that. We have pg_upgrade now, that makes initdb less painful, and if 
> it's just a new view it might be possible to just add a note in the 
> release notes that you'll have to run the CREATE VIEW manually if upgrading.

The view would presumably depend on a C-language SRF, which isn't there
either.

I'm of the opinion that this is a 9.1 problem.  It needs more thought
than we can put into it now --- one obvious question is what about
monitoring on the slave side?  Another is who should be able to see the
data?
        regards, tom lane