Re: Transaction-controlled robustness for replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Transaction-controlled robustness for replication
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Msg-id 23842.1218570035@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Transaction-controlled robustness for replication  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Transaction-controlled robustness for replication  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: Transaction-controlled robustness for replication  (Robert Hodges <robert.hodges@continuent.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:52 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> What is the attraction of logical application of the WAL logs? 
>> Transmitting to a server with different architecture?

> Yes,

> * different release
> * different encoding
> * different CPU architecture
> * (with the correct transform) a different DBMS

The notion that the WAL logs will ever be portable across such
differences is so ... so ... well, it's barely worth laughing at.
        regards, tom lane


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