> > Do they? I'm only aware of the GORDA patch. The old Postgres-R patches
> > are out of date. Sequoia, PgPool and PgPool-II obviously do not need
> > patches. Slony-II, Postgres-R (8) (mine) as well as PGCluster-II are not
> > open sourced, yet. And I haven't heard much regarding hooks from any of
> > the proprietary vendors (except Joshua's recent statement that he's
> > happy without such hooks).
>
> Because we're talking about replication, I don't think we can limit the
> discussion to current open source solutions. I could be mistaken, but I
> am under the impression that commercial replication solutions do patch
> the backend.
Quite.
> I am not advocating replication support in the backend (since I don't
> even know what form that would take), nor am I saying that it will
patch -p1 < replicator.diff
;)
Joshua D. Drake
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