Re: Slightly OT.

From: "Alexander Staubo" <alex(at)purefiction(dot)net>
To: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, gonzales(at)linuxlouis(dot)net, "Guillaume Lelarge" <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, "Kenneth Downs" <ken(at)secdat(dot)com>, nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slightly OT.
Date: 2007-06-01 22:05:20
Message-ID: 88daf38c0706011505t3ef0b138w426d627e4165bf30@mail.gmail.com
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On 6/2/07, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> "Alexander Staubo" <alex(at)purefiction(dot)net> writes:
>
> > I would love for the answer to have been "sorry, we did not have time
> > or manpower enough to implement fully transparent replication yet,
> > because it's a rather complex, you see";
>
> Would you still love that if you're one of the people who use replication to
> move the data to a reporting database which has a modified schema appropriate
> for the different usage? This improvement would make it useless for that
> purpose.

All you would require is a simple boolean flag to enable or disable
automatic DDL propagation, surely. Clearly people use replication for
different purposes; the current system favours people who prefer to
handle DDL propagation manually, and I am not one of them.

Alexander.

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