From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200608281448.k7SEmrv04306@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Replication Documentation
In-Reply-To: <44F2B242.60807@bluegap.ch>
To: Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:48:53 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>,
	pgman@candle.pha.pa.us
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Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Monday 21 August 2006 09:47, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> >> has there been a consensus about where a replication document should go
> >> and what it should cover?
>  >
> > I think the general idea is to toss it on techdocs... like the GUI Tools 
> > page... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.54
> 
> Hm. I didn't know that one. There is already a section about 
> replication. Chris, do you agree to put your article there?
> 
> But AFAIK the goal of our discussion was to put _something_ into the 
> official documentation to make it better visible. Lots of people ask for 
> replication solutions, but up to now there is no official statement. So 
> newcomers need to google around, figure out about lots of different 
> projects, partly dead ones, etc...
> 
> If we put an extensive replication article in the techdocs, we need to 
> link it somehow from the main documentatino, IMHO. Otherwise it probably 
> won't help that much.

I will work on a replication section for 8.2, similar to the XML docs I
posted a few days ago.

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