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

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
Date
Msg-id 20080529155303.GQ16218@fetter.org
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 08:46:22AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 08:21 -0700, David Fetter 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?

It looks like a wrapper for PITR to me, so the gain would be ease of
use.

Cheers,
David.
-- 
David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/
Phone: +1 415 235 3778  AIM: dfetter666  Yahoo!: dfetter
Skype: davidfetter      XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com

Remember to vote!
Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: "Dave Page"
Date:
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Memory question on win32 systems
Next
From: "Douglas McNaught"
Date:
Subject: Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL