Greg Stark wrote:
> 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.
yeah a lot of people are doing that intentionally...
Stefan
