Re: Replication on the backend

From: Gustavo Tonini <gustavotonini(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Replication on the backend
Date: 2005-12-08 18:28:29
Message-ID: 9c31dd0d0512081028p1e06787dj@mail.gmail.com
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Are you sure that no way to implement a generic aproach on the backend? What
does specification say? Does Oracle 10g have a core implementation of
replication (cluster)?

Gustavo.

2005/12/7, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>:
>
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:35:43AM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> > We do not plan to implement replication inside the backend. Replication
> > needs are so diverse that pluggable replication support makes a lot more
> > sense. To me it even makes more sense than keeping transaction support
> > outside of the database itself and add it via pluggable storage add-on.
>
> And, as I say every single time this comes up, Oracle's and IBM's and
> MS's and everybody else's replication systems are _also_ add ons. If
> you don't believe me, look at the license costs. You can get a
> system without it enabled, which means (by definition) it's a modular
> extension.
>
> A
>
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