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Subject: Re: pgsql: Implement pg_wal_replay_wait() stored procedure
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
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On 04/11/2024 17:53, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 9:19 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>> It's looking to me like there's just too much cruft in the quest to
>> avoid having to reach consensus on new syntax.  This might be a mistake.
>> Is it possible to backtrack on that decision?
> 
> There's also the patch that Heikki posted to wait using a
> protocol-level facility.

It was Peter E

> Maybe that's just a better fit and we don't need either a procedure
> or new syntax.
I think it would still be good to expose the feature at SQL level too. 
Makes it easier to test and makes it usable without client library 
changes, for example.

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Heikki Linnakangas
Neon (https://neon.tech)