From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
Cc: | Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(at)thenilgiris(dot)com>, PostgreSQL SQL <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: why vacuum |
Date: | 2005-10-26 16:09:05 |
Message-ID: | 435FAA21.3070400@Yahoo.com |
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On 10/26/2005 11:19 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>> hi,
>> i was in a minor flame war with a mysql guy - his major grouse was that
>> 'I wouldnt commit mission critical data to a database that needs to be
>> vacuumed once a week'. So why does pg need vacuum?
>
> Oh man oh man. After reading the article, I realized he was saying that
> he wouldn't trust PostgreSQL to replace Oracle. He apparently wouldn't
> trust MySQL to replace oracle either.
>
> But, the next time someone says that slony is a toy add on, and MySQL
> has REAL replication, point them to THIS page on the same blog:
>
> http://ebergen.net/wordpress/?p=70
>
You must have missed the FAQ and other side notes about replication in
the MySQL manual. Essentially MySQL replication is nothing but a query
duplicating system, with the added sugar of taking care of now() and
some other non-deterministic things, but not all of them.
Non-deterministic user defined procedures, functions and triggers will
simply blow MySQL's sophisticated replication apart.
Jan
> In short, it basically shows that MySQL replication is incredibly
> fragile, and not fit for production on any real system. The lack of
> system wide transaction support, like postgresql has, makes the problem
> he outlines that much worse.
>
> The hoops people will jump through to use their favorite toys...
>
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