From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200610251602.k9PG2v329749@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
In-Reply-To: <453F8A31.2090907@commandprompt.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:02:57 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>,
	pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> >>> I think this is a good reason not to list *any* of the products by name
> >>> in the documentation, but instead refer to a page on say techdocs that
> >>> can be more easily updated.
> >> I agree with that.  If we have statements about other projects in our
> >> docs, we will have a problem with not being able to update those
> >> statements in a timely fashion when the other projects change.
> > 
> > I mention only Slony and pgpool as examples of replication types.  They
> > seem to have risen to high enough visiblity to do that. I have not
> > mentioned any other solutions.
> 
> What about Slony-II or pgpool2? Which are fundamentally different from
> their v1 counterparts (o.k. slony-ii isn't out yet but still).
> 
> I +1 that we move to have all of the replication documentation pushed to
> techdocs or other facility and just have a link from the docs.

What I did was to mention Slony and pgpool as "examples", so people
realize there are many other soluions.  It would be good to have a
companion web site that could list them all, both open source and
commercial.  That is going to take a lot more work, but I think would
have great value, especially since our documentation will clearly
outline the terms.  What you don't want to do is to throw up a list and
have people try to figure out what solutions they cover.

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