Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 08:46:22AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 08:21 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > This part is a deal-killer. It's a giant up-hill slog to sell
> > warm standby to those in charge of making resources available
> > because the warm standby machine consumes SA time, bandwidth,
> > power, rack space, etc., but provides no tangible benefit, and
> > this feature would have exactly the same problem.
> >
> > IMHO, without the ability to do read-only queries on slaves, it's
> > not worth doing this feature at all.
>
> The only question I have is... what does this give us that PITR
> doesn't give us?

It looks like a wrapper for PITR to me, so the gain would be ease of
use.

Cheers,
David.
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