On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Completely aside from that, how many users are going to be happy with a
> slave server which is constantly 5 minutes behind?
>
Uhm, well all the ones who are happy with our current warm standby
setup for one?
And all the ones who are looking for a standby reporting server rather
than a high availability DR site.
For what it's worth Oracle has an option to have your standby
intentionally hold back n minutes behind and I've seen that set to 5
minutes.
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greg
