Re: Any *current* summary of postgres-r 7.2 status? (was Re:

Postgres-R is not ready for production, and development seems to have
stopped., and I don't know what multi-master solutions we can really
offer right now. We do have several master/slave replication solutions.

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Bopolissimus Platypus wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2003 00:34, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > You must have misunderstood something there. The whole idea of
> > Postgres-R is how to "avoid" the need for 2-phase commit in a
> > synchronous replication system.
>
> I've been looking at postgres-r and other postgres replication
> temporary solutions. does anyone have a good *current* summary
> of postgres-r status? from the website it looks like the working model
> is based on 6.2. is postgres-r 6.2 supposed to be good enough
> for production? that's what i'd assume "working model" means,
> but confirmation from people who've actually stress tested it would
> be great :).
>
> the 7.2 version is the development version. i don't see much detail
> (documentation) though on how stable the 7.2 version is. looking
> at the docs in the download itself, everything seems to refer to generic
> 7.2. i don't see anything that looks like postgres-r specific documentation.
> so i can't tell what things are implemented and what things still
> need to be implemented (but of course i might just not be looking
> hard enough for the data. to be honest, i'm just grepping for
> "replication", opening files that look like they might be interesting
> and scanning them, it's not like i've read everything in the doc
> directory).
>
> in doc/TODO.detail/replication, there's a bunch of emails, but the
> last one seems to be from 2001.
>
> there's src/backend/replication/README, but that seems to discuss
> only 6.2 work. i could do a diff, i suppose between the working model
> and 7.2, but i can't right now. i'm behind a dialup modem and it would
> take too long to download 6.2 :). maybe tomorrow at the office :).
>
> but again, if someone has detailed and up-to-date information (summary
> or in detail) on the 7.2 postgres-r status, that would be incredibly
> cool :).
>
> hmmm, there's a mailing list. archives at:
>
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/pgreplication-general/
>
> i didn't see any detailed summary of what's missing in 7.2 though.
> oh well, i'll just set up some test servers and just play with
> it for now, i guess.
>
> thanks for any information.
>
> tiger
>
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