Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Robert Hodges" <robert(dot)hodges(at)continuent(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
Date: 2008-06-01 17:19:10
Message-ID: b42b73150806011019g34be3a34t346ab0ed621bca76@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Robert Hodges
<robert(dot)hodges(at)continuent(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi Merlin,
>
> My point here is that with reasonably small extensions to the core you can
> build products that are a lot better than SLONY. Triggers do not cover
> DDL, among other issues, and it's debatable whether they are the best way to
> implement quorum policies like Google's semi-synchronous replication. As I
> mentioned separately this topic deserves another thread which I promise to
> start.

These issues are much discussed and well understood. At this point,
the outstanding points of discussion are technical...how to make this
thing work.

merlin

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