Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers


On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 08:21 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:12:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> This part is a deal-killer.  It's a giant up-hill slog to sell warm
> standby to those in charge of making resources available because the
> warm standby machine consumes SA time, bandwidth, power, rack space,
> etc., but provides no tangible benefit, and this feature would have
> exactly the same problem.
> 
> IMHO, without the ability to do read-only queries on slaves, it's not
> worth doing this feature at all.

The only question I have is... what does this give us that PITR doesn't
give us?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




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