Mikael.Carneholm@WirelessCar.com ("Mikael Carneholm") writes:
>>"Built In" Failover/Clustering
>
>>This won't happen. The community stance, which is a good one is that
>>no single replication solutions fits everyone's needs and therefore
>>we rely out the outside sources. Slony-I, Mammoth Replicator and
>>pgpool being the most popular.
>
> Too bad - I think that will keep a lot of potential users from
> evaluating Pg as a serious alternative. Good or bad, decide for
> yourself :)
Why on earth should that be?
What serious alternative to PostgreSQL actually includes built-in
failover or clustering?
For Oracle, it is a separate add-on product licensed separately.
Ditto for DB2.
The same is likely the case for Informix and others.
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