Re: Mentioning Slony in docs - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Decibel!
Subject Re: Mentioning Slony in docs
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Msg-id 93A76FF2-1ECD-4E1F-8E16-7125D4032272@decibel.org
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In response to Re: Mentioning Slony in docs  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>> My understanding was that we were trying to show equal favour to
>>> all of
>>> the various solutions. This was a reason not to do that.
>>
>> The reason for taking a "balanced approach" is that no one solution
>> fits everyone's needs.  I don't think the core docs should be pushing
>> Slony more than other solutions.
>
> We do mention Slony for in-place upgrades because if its
> capabilities to
> work across Postgres versions.

I'm pretty sure Skytools/Londiste works across versions too.
Presumably, any replication that's not based on binary format should
work.
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