X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A869FA437 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:39:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22206-02 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:38:55 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254EE9FA10A for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:38:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=phlogiston.dydns.org) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FvIZ2-00079G-Vs for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:45:33 -0400 Received: by phlogiston.dydns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B91B94172; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:38:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:38:47 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Start up question about triggers Message-ID: <20060627183847.GN27997@phlogiston.dyndns.org> References: <20060626144309.GA20519@phlogiston.dyndns.org> <200606270816.k5R8GHfk023493@auth-smtp.hol.gr> <20060627113936.GA27997@phlogiston.dyndns.org> <44A1212A.1050500@freedomcircle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44A1212A.1050500@freedomcircle.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200606/289 X-Sequence-Number: 25525 On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 08:14:34AM -0400, Joe wrote: > > But with file-based log shipping (see > http://linuxfinances.info/info/logshipping.html) one could write a Java > app to control when the updates are applied. Well, sure. I mean, if you decide first, "I'll use Java," and then start asking what problems you can solve, you can do anything ;-) I prefer the strategy whereby one asks what the problem is to be solved first, then choose the technology. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what you told them to. That actually seems sort of quaint now. --J.D. Baldwin