Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

Tom Lane wrote:

>>> There's no point in having read-only slave queries if you don't have a
>>> trustworthy method of getting the data to them.
> 
>> O.k. I was with you until here. Log shipping ala pg_standby works fine
>> now sans read-only slave. No, it isn't out of the box which I can see an
>> argument for but it is certainly trustworthy. Or do you mean the
>> synchronous part?
> 
> How much testing has pg_standby really gotten?  Some, sure, but it's a
> contrib module that wasn't even there before 8.3.  Even ignoring the lag
> issue, I wouldn't trust it a whole lot if I were a DBA responsible for
> valuable data.  As much as some folk would like to think that contrib
> is mainstream, it's not really in the same league as far as testing
> coverage goes.

This is a pretty telling statement.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake