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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: 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 16:31:31 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

> > I also wrote Bruce about that.
> > 
> > It happens that, if you 'freely advertise' commercial solutions 
> > (rather than they doing so by other vehicles) you will 
> always happen 
> > to be an 'updater' to the docs if they change their product 
> lines, if 
> > 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)

//Magnus

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