After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Matt Browne"), an earthling, wrote: > I apologise in advance if any of my questions are in a FAQ somewhere - I > haven't seen them... > > Does anyone know when (if ever) replication support will be added to the > main PostgreSQL codebase? Is there any chance it'll be included in the > upcoming 7.5 release?
Not much of a chance. > I've taken a look at the replication solutions already available, > including the sterling effort made on Slony-I, but we're really > looking for integrated, base-level support rather than an add-in. The problem is that "replication" doesn't tend to mean one thing, but people rather have different ideas of what it means. Jan Wieck puts it fairly nicely: "The number of different replication solutions available supports the theory that ``one size fits all'' is not true when it comes to database replication." -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="acm.org" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/emacs.html You shouldn't anthropomorphize computers; they don't like it. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend