I built this to have a dedicated wire-protocol client for postgres logical replication.
General-purpose SQL clients either don't implement the replication protocol at all, or bury it behind abstractions designed for other use cases. Replication has a bit different mechanics - it's a stateful binary stream requiring LSN tracking, standby heartbeats, and feedback to prevent WAL bloat. Bolting that onto a query-focused client has its own challenges.
This is just the transport - raw XLogData frames and LSNs. Use pg_replicate, as an example, if you need "replicate to BigQuery." Use this if you're building replication infrastructure.
What it does:
- Explicit LSN control - start/stop at specific WAL positions for deterministic recovery
- Automatic standby feedback - no more forgotten heartbeats filling your disk with WAL
- Bounded channels - backpressure propagates to Postgres naturally
- Pure Rust, no libpq
What it doesn't do: pgoutput decoding (intentionally). That belongs in a higher layer.
Simplest way of using this:
while let Some(event) = client.recv().await? {
match event {
ReplicationEvent::XLogData { wal_end, data, .. } => {
process(&data);
client.update_applied_lsn(wal_end);
}
_ => {}
}
}
This is just the transport - raw XLogData frames and LSNs. Use pg_replicate, as an example, if you need "replicate to BigQuery." Use this if you're building replication infrastructure.
What it does:
- Explicit LSN control - start/stop at specific WAL positions for deterministic recovery
- Automatic standby feedback - no more forgotten heartbeats filling your disk with WAL
- Bounded channels - backpressure propagates to Postgres naturally
- Pure Rust, no libpq
What it doesn't do: pgoutput decoding (intentionally). That belongs in a higher layer. Simplest way of using this:
while let Some(event) = client.recv().await? { match event { ReplicationEvent::XLogData { wal_end, data, .. } => { process(&data); client.update_applied_lsn(wal_end); } _ => {} } }
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