Re: Open source databases '60 per cent cheaper'

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 18:21 +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On a side note to this.. you said *into*.. my understanding is the
> > policy of the community is *no* replication is in core.
>
> I don't think that policy is written in stone. But for a replication
> solution to go into core, it should better cover a lot of use cases,
> i.e. for sure sync *and* async replication.

Perhaps we should re-read the archives. It has been a pretty solid
policy for *years* and it comes up before every release and it always
comes back to:

PostgreSQL doesn't ship a integrated replication solution, BECAUSE not
any one replication solution can fit the need.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



>
> Regards
>
> Markus
>
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