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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:13:38 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
CC: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
	Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>, josh@agliodbs.com,
	pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:33:03PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:13 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>
>>>> If it were me, I would say that the replication option has to be
>>>> specific to PostgreSQL (e.g; cjdbc or synchronous jakarta pooling
>>>> doesn't go in).
>>> ...and how do you define PostgreSQL exactly?
>> I replication product or software defined to work with only PostgreSQL?
>  
> AFAIK Continuent's product fails that test...

To my knowledge, p/cluster only works with PostgreSQL but I could be wrong.

> 
> I don't see any reason to exclude things that work with databases other
> than PostgreSQL, though I agree that replication that's actually in the
> application space (ie: it ties you to TomCat or some other platform)
> probably doesn't belong.

I was just trying to have a defined criteria of some sort. We could fill
up pages and pages of possible replication solutions :)

Joshua D. Drake


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