Thomas,
> Finally assume that the community board, when similar proposals
> arrive, will encourage the proposing parties to merge on the thesis
> that cooperation is far more productive than a beauty contest (well
> most of the time anyway).
Ah, so you're planning on merging with PL/J?
The different solutions are different because of technical decisions
which they made differently, usually for very good reasons. Slony-I
is trigger-based, Mammoth is log-based, and no matter which you prefer
they're not going to merge code.
BTW, our replication/clustering solutions include:
Slony-I
pgPool
Mammoth*
Postgres-R
pgCluster
Sequoia/p|cluster*
dbMirror/eRserv/other older solutions
ExtenDB*
Bizgres MPP*
Windows/Red Hat/Solaris clustered FS*
(*=proprietary/external)
I think any community packaged distribution should encourage this
diversity, not try to crush it.
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco 415-752-2500