Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:32:47 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Madan Kumar <madankumar1993@gmail.com>,
	"movead.li@highgo.ca" <movead.li@highgo.ca>,
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	soumyadeep2007@gmail.com,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: A patch for get origin from commit_ts.
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On 2020-Jun-30, Michael Paquier wrote:

> Another question that has popped up when doing this review is what
> would be the use-case of adding this information at SQL level knowing
> that logical replication exists since 10?

Logical replication in core is a far cry from a fully featured
replication solution.  Kindly do not claim that we can now remove
features just because in-core logical replication does not use them;
this argument is ignoring the fact that we're still a long way from
developing actually powerful logical replication capabilities.

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