Re: Integrating Replication into Core

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 7:21 pm, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
>
> Yes, Andrew Sullivan even opened a PgFoundry project and a mailing list.
> But up to now, only the GORDA project has proposed some hooks.
>
> For Postgres-R, I definitely don't want to settle for any hooks, yet,
> because I want to keep flexible. Hooks would only get into my way and
> serve no purpose.
>
> > If everybody invents their own grammar, GUC vars, etc. etc. it will be
> > impossible to handle down the track.
>
> Why is that? I can very well change all of the configuration stuff, I
> just don't see no use for that.

Indeed, we in GORDA have also came up with yet another set of changes to
grammar and GUC variables. This is not the ideal scenario. :-(

I understand that different people have different motives not to agree with
the GORDA-style hook based approach. Therefore, I suggest that we try to
agree on small but sure steps. The worst outcome of this would be that we all
end up with smaller patches to maintain...

The configuration stuff seems to be a good place to start. What about each of
us summarizing their changes to grammar and GUC to the hooks list to get the
discussion started on a solid ground?

BTW, we have released a new version of the GORDA platform. This version has
been completly rewritten (reusing some code from PL-J) and has a lot more
functionality. The annoucement will follow shortly.

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Jose Orlando Pereira