Re: Plans for 8.2?

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:39:06PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> Easy everyone. Let's not bite the newcomers too hard here.
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>>> 2. Define "endorse". Does that mean "in the backend"? So
>>> everyone has to pay the performance penalty even though they won't
>>> all use it? Even though no other database system makes you make that
>>> compromise?
>> I would presume that at least packaged with PG (in the contrib section)
>> would be a good start. A prominent, east to find link to Slony on
>> the website would help too.
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> Why just Slony? There's at least 2 other free replication solutions I
> can think of off the top of my head, and I'm sure I'm missing some.

Slony is the only free OSS postgreSQL replication solution that I would
ever suggest to someone.

However if the project is going to start suggesting replication
solutions it should suggest all of them.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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