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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
From: "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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	<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us>,
	"PostgreSQL-documentation" <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:05:37 +0100
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On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 12:34 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Looking at that, I'm a) missing PgCluster and b) arguing that we have to
> > admit that we simply can not 'list .. replication solutions ... and how
> > to get them' because all of the solutions mentioned need quite some
> > knowledge and require a more or less complex installation and
> > configuration.
> 
> There is also the question if we should have a sub section:
> 
> Closed Source replication solutions:
> 
> Mammoth Replicator
> Continuent P/Cluster
> ExtenDB
> Greenplum MPP (although this is kind of horizontal partitioning)

Where do you draw the line? You maybe surprised about what other options
that includes. I'm happy to include a whole range of things, but please
be very careful and precise about what you wish for.

There's enough good solutions for open source PostgreSQL that it is easy
and straightforward to limit it to just that. New contributions welcome,
of course.

-- 
  Simon Riggs             
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com