Re: Postgres-R source code release

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:42:21PM +0200, Markus Wanner wrote:
> Dear Hackers,
>
> it has been two years, since I've presented my work on Postgres-R for
> the first time to a broader audience in Toronto. I continued maintaining
> that code in my spare time, but to be honest, I didn't have much time
> for it.
>
> As much as I'd like to change that, I now think the best thing for the
> project itself is to open it up and release the source code. I'd very
> much like to get others aboard and turn Postgres-R into a real community
> project again. Of course, the recent core statement about wanting an
> integrated replication solution also influenced my decision, even though
> I realize that Postgres-R is way more ambitious path than a log shipping
> solution.
>
> As a first step towards a community project, I've cleaned up the code
> and tried to comment and document it as good as I can. You are welcome
> to download the latest patch from http://www.postgres-r.org/downloads/.
> It expects to be applied against today's CVS HEAD. You'll find a README
> and a pretty exhaustive TODO file under src/backend/replication/.

Would you mind if I were to make a git branch for it on
<http://git.postgresql.org/> ?

> In case you are wondering: I've got married

Congratulations!

Cheers,
David.
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