Re: ease of use sync - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: ease of use sync
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Msg-id dcc563d10809251227n5a73e75ft1136a55d871c31f7@mail.gmail.com
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In response to ease of use sync  ("zach cruise" <zachc1980@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:09 PM, zach cruise <zachc1980@gmail.com> wrote:
> on projects where i ended up selecting oracle, *my* main reasons were
> (1) clustering/replication
> (2) cross-database query
> (3) promise of drcp
> in that order
>
> for (1), actually more for synchronization/transfer, i got a simple
> suggestion:
> while installing postgresql,

But for 99.9% of people installing they don't want to deal with it,
and if they're on a unix OS using packages, it would have to halt
install to ask a question, which is considered bad form.

So why not instead build a script to do all the things you do by hand
afterwards.  I'd think that would get more traction.

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