| From: | Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 8.4 release planning |
| Date: | 2009-01-27 09:41:23 |
| Message-ID: | 497ED6C3.10902@paradise.net.nz |
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>> So, some feedback to make this decision more difficult:
>>>
>>> Users: care about HS more than anything else in the world.
>>>
>> I don't think this is correct. There are certainly a lot of users who
>> would like an in-core replication solution, but HS by itself is not that
>> --- you also need (near) real-time log shipping, which we have already
>> decided to punt to 8.5. That being the case, I think the argument
>> that HS is a must-have feature for 8.4 is actually rather weak.
>>
>
> I don't buy that. Sure, sync-rep would be the icing on the cake, but
> HS with a small archive_timeout (even of the order of 10 or 15
> minutes) would have been extremely useful on a number of systems I
> used to run.
>
>
>
+1
I have customers who want exactly this - a simple to administer,
query-able slave that does DDL transparently and is up to date within a
controllable time frame. Bluntly, it looks like a killer feature.
regards
Mark
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