Re: Enterprise readiness - mirroring / incremental backup

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 09:08, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Kieran wrote:
>
> > My last question is somewhat pie-in-the sky, but assuming that
> > PostgreSQL cannot currently meet requirements 3 & 4 even with 3rd party
> > solutions, what are people's gut reactions to whether a small team (e.g.
> > 5-6) of experienced, full-time paid developers could add mirroring and
> > incremental backup support to PostgreSQL within 18 months?
>
> Easily done. We have a point-in-time recovery patch ready for 7.4
> already.  Full multi-master replication is being worked on at:
>
>     http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
>

Maybe I am overly optimistic, but I would think you could do this within
6 months without too much trouble with a team of 5-6 developers working
on it. You could probably cut back on developers and hire consulting
services from one of the postgresql support companies that already have
a replication solution.

Robert Treat