Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

On 8/14/2004 5:26 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Chris Travers wrote:
>> > Please stop looking at Afilias as a 3rd party. Afilias is a member of
>> > the PGDG as everyone else. The problem that even people inside of this
>> > community can't imagine a company being just a member of this team
>> > doesn't mean that it is impossible.
>> >
>> While you have a valid point from the perspective of the community, I
>> think there is an issue which is legitimate here. That is that people
>> see the fact that Slony does not come with the PostgreSQL tarball. From
>> this perspective "we" do not have a "replication" solution. Like it or
>> not, this is a viewpoint many evaluators have. To them, this is still a
>> third-party add-on, even though it was developed primarily by core
>> members of the PostgreSQL community.
>>
>> How do we combat this issue? Do we release Slony with PostgreSQL? Does
>> that really make sense (the general concensus seems to be "no")? Do we
>> release a different distribution of PostgreSQL which includes Slony? I
>> think that this would be a good idea, but....
>>
>> Also, will it be possible to see a Win32 port of Slony at some point?
>
> Why would Slony _not_ work on Win32? Has anyone tested it?
>

Windows doesn't have pthreads. The thread usage in Slony is very basic,
nothing really pthread specific. So I don't think there'd be a big issue
in porting it. But it hasn't been done yet.

Jan

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