Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> ISTM that we can have a system catalog and still have cascading slaves.
> If we administer the catalog via the master, why can't we administer all
> slaves, however they cascade, via the master too?
> What other problems are there that mean we *must* have a file?
Well, for one thing, how do you add a new slave? If its configuration
comes from a system catalog, it seems that it has to already be
replicating before it knows what its configuration is.
regards, tom lane