Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mXuxc-0007oU-7W for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:39:04 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mXuxY-0004WD-RD for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:39:00 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mXuxY-0004W5-JT for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:39:00 +0000 Received: from momjian.us ([72.94.173.45]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mXuxV-0008Rx-FT for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:38:59 +0000 Received: from bruce by momjian.us with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mXuxP-0007eJ-TB; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:38:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 20:38:51 -0400 From: Bruce Momjian To: Chapman Flack Cc: Bharath Rupireddy , PostgreSQL Hackers , satyanarlapuram@gmail.com, marvin_liang@qq.com, actyzhang@outlook.com, Ashutosh Sharma Subject: Re: pg_walinspect - a new extension to get raw WAL data and WAL stats Message-ID: <20211006003851.GD24555@momjian.us> References: <20211005220707.GC24555@momjian.us> <615CD01B.9050205@anastigmatix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <615CD01B.9050205@anastigmatix.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 06:22:19PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote: > On 10/05/21 18:07, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Uh, are we going to implement everything that is only available at the > > command line as an extension just for people who are using managed cloud > > services > > One extension that runs a curated menu of command-line tools for you > and returns their stdout? Yes, that would make sense, and something the cloud service providers would write. -- Bruce Momjian https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.