Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
Date: 2008-05-29 21:54:36
Message-ID: 1212098076.27385.73.camel@jd-laptop
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On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 17:42 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:

>
> I would have thought the read only piece would have been more important than
> the synchronous piece. In my experience readable slaves is the big selling
> point in both Oracle and MySQL's implementations, and people are not nearly
> as concerned if there is a small asynchronous window.

The read only piece is the more important piece from a market
perspective.

Joshua D. Drake

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