Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Cesar Suga" <sartre(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Steve Atkins" <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-documentation" <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
Date: 2006-10-25 14:31:31
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA35839@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > I also wrote Bruce about that.
> >
> > It happens that, if you 'freely advertise' commercial solutions
> > (rather than they doing so by other vehicles) you will
> always happen
> > to be an 'updater' to the docs if they change their product
> lines, if
> > they change their business model, if and if.
>
> That is no different than the open source offerings. We have
> had several open source offerings that have died over the
> years. Replicator, for example has always been Replicator and
> has been around longer than any of the current replication solutions.

I think this is a good reason not to list *any* of the products by name
in the documentation, but instead refer to a page on say techdocs that
can be more easily updated. And that can contain both free and non-free
projects, under clear headlines showing the difference.

The documentation is about PostgreSQL, not about third-party products,
be they free or commercial. Our *website*, however, should give guidance
on which specific products we (as a community) know are stable and
usable along with PostgreSQL (as we do today under downloads, but could
very well do based on specific uses like replication as well)

//Magnus

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