Re: Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?
Date: 2011-12-08 19:38:48
Message-ID: 4EE11248.8020804@commandprompt.com
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On 12/08/2011 11:24 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
>
> On 12/08/11 11:16 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>
>>> um, I believe this is referring to Oracle RAC clustering, not HA
>>> active/standby. I seriously doubt Oracle is dropping RAC.
>>
>> I meant worrying about it for Pg.
>
> the odds of Postgres developing something as complex and intricate as
> RAC are probably between zilch and none. RAC was for many years
> completely unusable, and even now, its complicated, fragile, and expensive.
>

Exactly.

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