Re: Favorite Tom Lane quotes

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Picavet Vincent <
Vincent(dot)Picavet(at)mediapost(dot)fr> wrote:

>
> That seems to be kind of a joke, but I heard that the french CNES (spatial
> agency) is doing some huge database replication between two sites thanks to
> big trucks carrying the data once a month, because current network devices
> transfer rates do not allow them to do remote replication through the
> network. Or maybe the reasons to this method are not only technical but
> economical.
> I have no detailed information on this, and it's more a rumour than a
> verified information, but should somebody know more on the subject, i'd be
> interested in hearing it.
>

but than you have to add cost of backing up and restoring labour time, and
that's going to be a massive latency - if you ask me.

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GJ