Re: "Too far out of the mainstream"

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Ondrej Ivanič <ondrej(dot)ivanic(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 5 September 2012 12:14, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > So people are using PostgreSQL in roles that aren't very visible anyway,
> > DBA's are usually coming to PostgreSQL from other RDBMS's, and few
> > applications are really distributed for PostgreSQL.
> > <snip>
> > Not only
> > this but there was significant interest in moving more db's to
> PostgreSQL,
> > but the big limitation is that everyone who knows PostgreSQL already has
> a
> > job.
>
> Some shops are going opposite way -- from PostgreSQL to MySQL like
> databases because of missing replication features. The 9.1 caught up
> but there is no multi-master replication like in Percona's XtraDB
> cluster: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb-cluster/
>
> Postgres-XC can solve this missing multi-master replication issue but
> "nobody" knows that this project exists. Another project is "Galera
> Cluster for PostgreSQL" (Galera is used in XtraDB) but this looks like
> vaporware...
>

To be fair I was speaking specifically of the folks I talked to at
MYGOSSCON. The major question was "Do we really need Oracle?"

Also I don't know about others but I have been trying to highlight
Postgres-XC wherever it seems appropriate.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers