Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Tom Lane wrote:

> It should also be pointed out that the whole thing becomes uninteresting
> if we get real-time log shipping implemented.  So I see absolutely no
> point in spending time integrating pg_clearxlogtail now.

There are remote replication scenarios over a WAN (mainly aimed at 
disaster recovery) that want to keep a fairly updated database without 
putting too much traffic over the link.  People in that category really 
want zeroed tail+compressed archives, but probably not the extra overhead 
that comes with shipping smaller packets in a real-time implementation.

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