Andrew,
> Sure there's a price to pay. But that doesn't mean the facility doesn't
> exist. And I rather suspect that most of Josh's customers aren't too
> concerned about traffic charges or affected by such bandwidth
> restrictions. Certainly, none of my clients are, and they aren't in the
> giant class. Shipping a 16Mb file, particularly if compressed, every
> minute or so, is not such a huge problem for a great many commercial
> users, and even many domestic users.
The issue is that when you're talking about telecommunications companies
(and similar) once a minute isn't adequate. Those folks want at least
every second, or even better synchronous.
Anyway, this is a pretty pointless discussion given that we want both
capabilities, and stuff will get implemented in the order it makes
technical sense.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
