Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

Just for information.

In terms of archive compression, I have archive log compression which
will be found in http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pglesslog/

This feature is also included in NTT's synchronized log shipping
replication presented in the last PGCon.

2008/6/10 Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> It should also be pointed out that the whole thing becomes uninteresting
>> if we get real-time log shipping implemented. So I see absolutely no
>> point in spending time integrating pg_clearxlogtail now.
>
> There are remote replication scenarios over a WAN (mainly aimed at disaster
> recovery) that want to keep a fairly updated database without putting too
> much traffic over the link. People in that category really want zeroed
> tail+compressed archives, but probably not the extra overhead that comes
> with shipping smaller packets in a real-time implementation.
>
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