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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Cesar Suga <[email protected]>
Cc: Steve Atkins <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:35:03 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


>>> they change their business model, if and if.
>> That is no different than the open source offerings. We have 
>> had several open source offerings that have died over the 
>> years. Replicator, for example has always been Replicator and 
>> has been around longer than any of the current replication solutions.
> 
> 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. And that can contain both free and non-free
> projects, under clear headlines showing the difference.
> 
> The documentation is about PostgreSQL, not about third-party products,
> be they free or commercial. Our *website*, however, should give guidance
> on which specific products we (as a community) know are stable and
> usable along with PostgreSQL (as we do today under downloads, but could
> very well do based on specific uses like replication as well)
> 

I can agree with this :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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