From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Replication
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:09:46 -0400
Message-ID: <m3oepklq51.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
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Quoth uwe@oss4u.com ("Uwe C. Schroeder"):
> I concur. However the problem SAP had some 18years ago when they
> invented their system were massive differences between
> databases. The scope they had in mind didn't allow for whole
> database layers to be redundant just for the sake of being able to
> talk to several database engines - ergo they wrote one layer and
> omitted using vendor dependant database features. Nowadays most
> relevant databases are pretty compatible when it comes to
> constraints, so if you stick to the basics you should be fine now.
One of the issues was always that of locking. Different systems still
have different semantics.
--
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what is pretty clear in a functional language looks extremely
scientific in an object-oriented one. -- Peter Sestoft
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