Re: Integrating Replication into Core

From: Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: David Boreham <david_list(at)boreham(dot)org>
Cc: replica-hooks-discuss(at)pgfoundry(dot)org, " José Orlando =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_Pereira?=" <jop(at)lsd(dot)di(dot)uminho(dot)pt>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alfranio Correia <alfranio(at)lsd(dot)di(dot)uminho(dot)pt>
Subject: Re: Integrating Replication into Core
Date: 2006-11-23 15:02:52
Message-ID: 4565B81C.6070204@bluegap.ch
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Hi,

David Boreham wrote:
> I've worked on an emulated test rig for a replication system (not RDBMS
> but for LDAP).
> We used netem (OSS)

Thanks. I've already heard about that one some while ago, but didn't
remember it. I'll have another look.

> for the network emulation and a pile of python and
> shell scripts and
> C client test apps.
> Testing replication is hard, of course, and you have to roll most of it
> yourself :(

Yeah, I'm also using python for that.

>> If you know such a thing, please email me! (I've looked at STAF, but
>> that seems overly complex and targeted at completely different use-case.)
>
> In my experience test frameworks tend to provide less useful
> functionality than one might hope.
> Sometimes to the point that they're hardly worth bothering with at all.

ACK. Same experience here.

Regards

Markus

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