In the last exciting episode, jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote:
2>>> Replication for PostgreSQL is *not* a new thing ... its not
>>> something that is first available in 8.0.0, but has been available
>>> since 7.2 ... if it were something new, fine, touting that we've
>>> finally got a replication solution is good. But replication is
>>> *old news*, plain and simple ...
>> But many feel Slony is far better than previous solutions and
>> should be touted as we have touted other replication solutions in
>> the past.
>
> Does a solution have to be Open Source to be touted?
Well, vendors of proprietary solutions are normally expected to _pay_ to
get their products advertised.
MySQL(tm) appears to be treated as an exception to that rule, in the
"open source" community, which seems unfair, but that's presumably a
matter for some other thread.
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