Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:33:03PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:13 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>
>>>> If it were me, I would say that the replication option has to be
>>>> specific to PostgreSQL (e.g; cjdbc or synchronous jakarta pooling
>>>> doesn't go in).
>>> ...and how do you define PostgreSQL exactly?
>> I replication product or software defined to work with only PostgreSQL?
>
> AFAIK Continuent's product fails that test...

To my knowledge, p/cluster only works with PostgreSQL but I could be wrong.

>
> I don't see any reason to exclude things that work with databases other
> than PostgreSQL, though I agree that replication that's actually in the
> application space (ie: it ties you to TomCat or some other platform)
> probably doesn't belong.

I was just trying to have a defined criteria of some sort. We could fill
up pages and pages of possible replication solutions :)

Joshua D. Drake

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