Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
Date: 2008-05-29 20:54:04
Message-ID: 200805292054.m4TKs4O26040@momjian.us
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David Fetter wrote:
> > What is your justification for denigrating this plan with that? Or
> > are you merely complaining because we know we won't be all the way
> > there in 8.4?
>
> Again, just my humble opinion, but given the stated goal, which I
> agree with, I'd say it's worth holding up 8.4 until some kind of
> out-of-the-box replication advances that goal, where Yet Another
> Toolkit Suitable For People Who Are Already Database Kernel Hackers To
> Build Replication Systems On Top Of does not.

I am confused why we would hold 8.4 when no one said we should hold 8.3
because we didn't have built-in replication.

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