Re: beta testing version

From: Tom Samplonius <tom(at)sdf(dot)com>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
Cc: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: beta testing version
Date: 2000-12-02 21:52:27
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.05.10012021347130.11928-100000@misery.sdf.com
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Don Baccus wrote:

...
> Will Great Bridge step to the plate and fund a truly open source alternative,
> leaving us with a potential code fork? If IB gets its political problems
> under control and developers rally around it, two years is going to be a
> long time to just sit back and wait for PG, Inc to release eRServer.

I doubt that. There is an IB (Interbase) replication option today, but
you must purchase it. That isn't so bad actually. PostgreSQL looks to be
going that way too: base functionality is open source, periphial
companies make money selling extensions.

Besides simple master-slave replication is old news anyhow, and not
terribly useful. Products like FrontBase (www.frontbase.com) have full
shared-nothing cluster support too (FrontBase is commerical). Clustering
is a much better solution for redundancy purposes that replication.

Tom

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