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From: Doruk Yilmaz <[email protected]>
To: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
To: Euler Taveira <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Patch] add new parameter to pg_replication_origin_session_setup
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:13:27 +0300
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On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM Amit Kapila <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> To use replication_origin by multiple processes, one must maintain the
> commit order as we do internally by allowing the leader process to
> wait for the parallel worker to finish the commit. See comments atop
> replorigin_session_setup(). Now, we could expose the pid parameter as
> proposed by the patch after documenting the additional requirements,
> but I am afraid that users may directly start using the API without
> following the commit order principle, which can lead to incorrect
> replication. So, isn't it better to do something to avoid the misuse
> of this feature before exposing it?

Wouldn't mentioning/describing needing to follow the commit order
principle on the documentation be enough for this?
It is quite an advanced feature that I don't believe person intending
to use it won't start with reading documentation first.


Is there any updates on the commit? I see that intended commitfest window ended.

Thanks,
Doruk Yılmaz

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