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

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 17:42 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:

> 
> I would have thought the read only piece would have been more important than 
> the synchronous piece. In my experience readable slaves is the big selling 
> point in both Oracle and MySQL's implementations, and people are not nearly 
> as concerned if there is a small asynchronous window.  

The read only piece is the more important piece from a market
perspective. 

Joshua D. Drake