Re: RServ patch to support multiple slaves (sorta) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: RServ patch to support multiple slaves (sorta)
Date
Msg-id 20030626012832.GA24202@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: RServ patch to support multiple slaves (sorta)  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: RServ patch to support multiple slaves (sorta)  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:33:04PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > > Patch applied.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > > Michael A Nachbaur wrote:
> > > >> Attached is a patch that provides *VERY* limited support for multiple slave
> > > >> servers.  I haven't tested it very well, so use at your own risk (and I
> > > >> recommend against using it in production).
> > >    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > It sounded to me like that patch was intended for comment, not for
> > > application.
> >
> > He said it wasn't all he wanted to do with the code, but that it did
> > work.  With so few rserv patches, it seems like something we should get
> > in, but maybe not?  Other comments?  I am not sure myself.
> 
> Considering how many ppl have commented in the past how rserv was broken
> anyway ... ?  I'd say it can't hurt anything ...

Are you saying that it doesn't matter that it is made more broken?
Sorry if I disagree... we should be trying to fix it, not the other way
around.

If it's so broken, why hasn't it received any improvement?  Is there
some problem with the underlying design?  I suppose the erServer code is
at least vaguely based on this, right?

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Nadie esta tan esclavizado como el que se cree libre no siendolo" (Goethe)


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