Re: Sync Rep: First Thoughts on Code

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 18:36 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:

> Personally, I would like to have a
> simple setup where I can initially setup primary and standby and they
> continue to work in a single-failure mode without any additional
> administrative overhead (such as rsync). But that's just me and I
> don't know what the preferred option in the field.

If you want a tripod, you need to turn up with all 3 legs. :-) 

PostgreSQL is a working product, not a framework or a function library.
We're not going to add code that has no function at all other than as
part of a larger feature, unless we add the whole feature.

I'm happy if that whole feature is added. If we do add it, it will be a
utility like "pg_resync". So in admin terms it will be almost identical
to using rsync, just a specific version that minimizes effort even more
than rsync does currently. The only difference as I see it would be some
gain in performance, but we don't need to send the whole database down
the wire again in either case.

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