On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:39:06PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Easy everyone. Let's not bite the newcomers too hard here.
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> > 2. Define "endorse". Does that mean "in the backend"? So
> > everyone has to pay the performance penalty even though they won't
> > all use it? Even though no other database system makes you make that
> > compromise?
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> I would presume that at least packaged with PG (in the contrib section)
> would be a good start. A prominent, east to find link to Slony on
> the website would help too.
Why just Slony? There's at least 2 other free replication solutions I
can think of off the top of my head, and I'm sure I'm missing some.
And there was rather extensive discussion about contrib on -hackers
about 6 months ago. IIRC the decision was that the only reason to put
something in contrib was if it was either dependant on specific backend
code or if it was targeted for inclusion into the backend.
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