David,
I think having master-slave replication in the core using WAL is a *great* thing to do, doable, a good path to go on, etc., and I think it's worth holding up 8.4 until we have at least one actual out-of-the-box version of same.
Ah, ok. Well, I can tell you that the core team is also united on the value of time-based as opposed to feature-based release cycles. *if* we can develop this in time for 8.4, everybody would be overjoyed, but I also think we should be realistic.
People have hinted that we might be able to get both a synchronous one and an asynchronous one based on WAL, which would be even better. :)
That's the idea, yes. No reason to dump asynch WAL copying when it's already working.
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