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Comments: In-reply-to Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:27:02 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's not as easy as all that.  What will you do with updates to shared
>> catalogs?

> Apply them.

... which leaves your other databases in inconsistent states.

			regards, tom lane