Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Yeah, I just read the thread. I guess with the low volume makes sense
> to use "general", but I figured if someone went to the work of
> developing a website for BDR, they would just as soon create a mailing
> list hosted there, but I guess not.
Actually, that website was created relatively recently, and it only
exists with the intention of hosting the HTML documentation build. (The
documentation was originally in wiki.postgresql.org, but as I recall
that proved hard to maintain.)
> It clearly is being developed by 2ndQuadrant:
>
> http://bdr-project.org/docs/next/index.html
>
> BDR is developed by the BDR team at 2ndQuadrant. Multiple customers
> contribute funding and other resources to make BDR development possible.
> 2ndQuadrant continues to fund the ongoing development of BDR to meet
> internal needs and those of customers.
>
> It doesn't look like a community project to me --- it looks like an open
> source project funded by 2nd Quadrant and its customers, which is fine,
> but I don't know why the community is fielding questions about it on its
> mailing list.
The whole thing is intended to be integrated to upstream Postgres. I
can't believe you haven't seen the following pieces being committed:
- logical decoding
- replication slots
- replication origin identifier
- commit timestamp
- DDL deparsing
2ndQuadrant's intention is that eventually what we now call BDR will be
integrated functionality, part of the core git repository. As I
understand, the only pieces that touch the backend code remaining to
implement the complete BDR functionality is the sequence AM patch,
submitted to prior commitfests, considered almost ready, and not yet
updated but hopefully will be submitted for 9.6 soon.
Questions by users and discussion in the community lists help shape the
design so that it is most useful to them, just like they shape Postgres
itself. If other people want to join the team developing BDR, they are
most welcome.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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