Re: 10 weeks to feature freeze (Pending Work)

On Feb 5, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2:38 pm, t(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) wrote:
>> Rick Gigger <r(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com> writes:
>>> I thought that the following todo item just barely missed 8.2:
>>> "Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only statements
>>> [pitr]
>>
>> No, it's a someday-wishlist item; the work involved is not small.
>
> Slony1 has supported log-shipping replication for about a year now. It
> provides similar functionality.

Not really....

1) It's not possible for a PITR 'slave' to fall behind to a state
where it will never catch up, unless it's just on inadequate
hardware. Same isn't true with slony.
2) PITR handles DDL seamlessly
3) PITR is *much* simpler to configure and maintain
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