Re: RServ patch to support multiple slaves (sorta)

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:33:04PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > > Patch applied. Thanks.
> > >
> > > > Michael A Nachbaur wrote:
> > > >> Attached is a patch that provides *VERY* limited support for multiple slave
> > > >> servers. I haven't tested it very well, so use at your own risk (and I
> > > >> recommend against using it in production).
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > It sounded to me like that patch was intended for comment, not for
> > > application.
> >
> > He said it wasn't all he wanted to do with the code, but that it did
> > work. With so few rserv patches, it seems like something we should get
> > in, but maybe not? Other comments? I am not sure myself.
>
> Considering how many ppl have commented in the past how rserv was broken
> anyway ... ? I'd say it can't hurt anything ...

Are you saying that it doesn't matter that it is made more broken?
Sorry if I disagree... we should be trying to fix it, not the other way
around.

If it's so broken, why hasn't it received any improvement? Is there
some problem with the underlying design? I suppose the erServer code is
at least vaguely based on this, right?

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