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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Luke Lonergan <[email protected]>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:57:46 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


I don't think the PostgreSQL documentation should be mentioning
commercial solutions.

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Luke Lonergan wrote:
> Bruce, 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:16 PM
> > To: Hannu Krosing
> > Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation; PostgreSQL-development
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
> > 
> > 
> > OK, I have updated the URL.  Please let me know how you like it.
> 
> There's a typo on line 8, first paragraph:
> 
> "perhaps with only one server allowing write rwork together at the same
> time."
> 
> Also, consider this wording of the last description:
> 
> "Single-Query Clustering..."
> 
> Replaced by:
> 
> "Shared Nothing Clustering
> -----------------------
> 
> This allows multiple servers with separate disks to work together on a
> each query.
> In shared nothing clusters, the work of answering each query is
> distributed among
> the servers to increase the performance through parallelism.  These
> systems will
> typically feature high availability by using other forms of replication
> internally.
> 
> While there are no open source options for this type of clustering,
> there are several
> commercial products available that implement this approach, making
> PostgreSQL achieve
> very high performance for multi-Terabyte business intelligence
> databases."
> 
> - Luke

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