> But I find a surprisingly high fraction of applications are very amenable to
> being handled as insert-only. A medical application strikes me as something
> someone is all the more likely to be happy with an insert-only model.
Yes, I work in the medical field, and use my own home-grown (predates Slony)
replication system to maintain an offsite near-real-time backup server. The
fact that most of my data is insert only greatly simplifies things.
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