Chris Travers wrote:
> > Please stop looking at Afilias as a 3rd party. Afilias is a member of
> > the PGDG as everyone else. The problem that even people inside of this
> > community can't imagine a company being just a member of this team
> > doesn't mean that it is impossible.
> >
> While you have a valid point from the perspective of the community, I
> think there is an issue which is legitimate here. That is that people
> see the fact that Slony does not come with the PostgreSQL tarball. From
> this perspective "we" do not have a "replication" solution. Like it or
> not, this is a viewpoint many evaluators have. To them, this is still a
> third-party add-on, even though it was developed primarily by core
> members of the PostgreSQL community.
>
> How do we combat this issue? Do we release Slony with PostgreSQL? Does
> that really make sense (the general concensus seems to be "no")? Do we
> release a different distribution of PostgreSQL which includes Slony? I
> think that this would be a good idea, but....
>
> Also, will it be possible to see a Win32 port of Slony at some point?
Why would Slony _not_ work on Win32? Has anyone tested it?
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