On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Ondrej Ivanič <ondrej.iva...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > On 5 September 2012 12:14, Chris Travers <chris.trav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So people are using PostgreSQL in roles that aren't very visible anyway, > > DBA's are usually coming to PostgreSQL from other RDBMS's, and few > > applications are really distributed for PostgreSQL. > > <snip> > > Not only > > this but there was significant interest in moving more db's to > PostgreSQL, > > but the big limitation is that everyone who knows PostgreSQL already has > a > > job. > > Some shops are going opposite way -- from PostgreSQL to MySQL like > databases because of missing replication features. The 9.1 caught up > but there is no multi-master replication like in Percona's XtraDB > cluster: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb-cluster/ > > Postgres-XC can solve this missing multi-master replication issue but > "nobody" knows that this project exists. Another project is "Galera > Cluster for PostgreSQL" (Galera is used in XtraDB) but this looks like > vaporware... > To be fair I was speaking specifically of the folks I talked to at MYGOSSCON. The major question was "Do we really need Oracle?" Also I don't know about others but I have been trying to highlight Postgres-XC wherever it seems appropriate. Best Wishes, Chris Travers
