Re: systems 2007 ...

[Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>]

Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 12:12 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 08:47 +0200, Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:
> >
> > > - "what is the difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL?"
> > > - "we use PostgreSQL; we are so happy; keep doing "
> > > - "we use Oracle, is PostgreSQL as powerful as Oracle?"
> >
> > Sounds familiar. I also get "Does Postgres do replication?"
>
>
> yeah, i definitely missed that one ...
> the MySQL transaction log shipping is definitely something people are 
> asking for.
> it would definitely make sense to implement the streaming stuff Hannu 
> has suggested along with the "slave read / only" feature.
> it takes away a lot of pressure on the argumentation side.

well slony already has a file based log shipping facility - but a WAL 
based solution in combination with being able to read from a cluster in 
recovery mode (ie the stuff Florian is working on) would be nice ...


Stefan