| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0 |
| Date: | 2004-08-13 16:04:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20040813130334.L4756@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>>> To be fair :) the only thing that makes Slony notable for PostgreSQL is
>>>> that it is Open Source. There are other replication systems out there
>>>> that have been working for some time.
>>>
>>>
>>> Uh, and we are an open source project --- Slony being "open source"
>>> seems like a very notable distinction to me.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for pointing out what I already had :)
>
> My point was that saying it is the "only thing" that makes it notable is
> to minimize a major point of pushing Slony. It is "the" notable issue.
Not it isn't, as there are other Open Source replication solutions for
PostgreSQL, as I pointed out before ... Slony is effectively "the fashion
of the day", and next release, there could be 'yet another of the many'
that is that much better ...
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