<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Chapter 49. Logical Decoding</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="bgworker.html" title="Chapter 48. Background Worker Processes" /><link rel="next" href="logicaldecoding-example.html" title="49.1. Logical Decoding Examples" /></head><body><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">Chapter 49. 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Logical Decoding Examples</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="logicaldecoding-explanation.html">49.2. Logical Decoding Concepts</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-explanation.html#id-1.8.14.8.2">49.2.1. Logical Decoding</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-explanation.html#LOGICALDECODING-REPLICATION-SLOTS">49.2.2. Replication Slots</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-explanation.html#id-1.8.14.8.4">49.2.3. Output Plugins</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-explanation.html#id-1.8.14.8.5">49.2.4. Exported Snapshots</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="logicaldecoding-walsender.html">49.3. Streaming Replication Protocol Interface</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="logicaldecoding-sql.html">49.4. Logical Decoding <acronym class="acronym">SQL</acronym> Interface</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="logicaldecoding-catalogs.html">49.5. System Catalogs Related to Logical Decoding</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="logicaldecoding-output-plugin.html">49.6. Logical Decoding Output Plugins</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-output-plugin.html#LOGICALDECODING-OUTPUT-INIT">49.6.1. Initialization Function</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-output-plugin.html#LOGICALDECODING-CAPABILITIES">49.6.2. Capabilities</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-output-plugin.html#LOGICALDECODING-OUTPUT-MODE">49.6.3. Output Modes</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-output-plugin.html#LOGICALDECODING-OUTPUT-PLUGIN-CALLBACKS">49.6.4. Output Plugin Callbacks</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="logicaldecoding-output-plugin.html#LOGICALDECODING-OUTPUT-PLUGIN-OUTPUT">49.6.5. Functions for Producing Output</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="logicaldecoding-writer.html">49.7. Logical Decoding Output Writers</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="logicaldecoding-synchronous.html">49.8. Synchronous Replication Support for Logical Decoding</a></span></dt></dl></div><a id="id-1.8.14.2" class="indexterm"></a><p> PostgreSQL provides infrastructure to stream the modifications performed via SQL to external consumers. This functionality can be used for a variety of purposes, including replication solutions and auditing. </p><p> Changes are sent out in streams identified by logical replication slots. </p><p> The format in which those changes are streamed is determined by the output plugin used. An example plugin is provided in the PostgreSQL distribution. Additional plugins can be written to extend the choice of available formats without modifying any core code. Every output plugin has access to each individual new row produced by <code class="command">INSERT</code> and the new row version created by <code class="command">UPDATE</code>. Availability of old row versions for <code class="command">UPDATE</code> and <code class="command">DELETE</code> depends on the configured replica identity (see <a class="xref" href="sql-altertable.html#SQL-CREATETABLE-REPLICA-IDENTITY"><code class="literal">REPLICA IDENTITY</code></a>). </p><p> Changes can be consumed either using the streaming replication protocol (see <a class="xref" href="protocol-replication.html" title="53.4. Streaming Replication Protocol">Section 53.4</a> and <a class="xref" href="logicaldecoding-walsender.html" title="49.3. Streaming Replication Protocol Interface">Section 49.3</a>), or by calling functions via SQL (see <a class="xref" href="logicaldecoding-sql.html" title="49.4. Logical Decoding SQL Interface">Section 49.4</a>). It is also possible to write additional methods of consuming the output of a replication slot without modifying core code (see <a class="xref" href="logicaldecoding-writer.html" title="49.7. Logical Decoding Output Writers">Section 49.7</a>). </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bgworker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="server-programming.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="logicaldecoding-example.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 48. 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