Logical decoding is a superset of the existing standby protocol. Hence after decoding changes from WAL an output plugin can shape it in any kind of ways, making for example possible to have a plugin that does the exact revert operation of the decoding portion a PostgreSQL server instancedid by reproducing similar WAL records that could be replayed similarly to a standby. Not sure if this would be actually useful, but well that’s possible…
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