Message-ID: <453F8A31.2090907@commandprompt.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:00:49 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>,
	pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
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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.

Joshua D. Drake


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