Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

[Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>]

Andrew,

> Sure there's a price to pay. But that doesn't mean the facility doesn't
> exist. And I rather suspect that most of Josh's customers aren't too
> concerned about traffic charges or affected by such bandwidth
> restrictions. Certainly, none of my clients are, and they aren't in the
> giant class. Shipping a 16Mb file, particularly if compressed, every
> minute or so, is not such a huge problem for a great many commercial
> users, and even many domestic users.

The issue is that when you're talking about telecommunications companies 
(and similar) once a minute isn't adequate.  Those folks want at least 
every second, or even better synchronous.

Anyway, this is a pretty pointless discussion given that we want both 
capabilities, and stuff will get implemented in the order it makes 
technical sense.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco