Hi Tom, Could you expand on why logical application of WAL records is impractical in these cases? This is what Oracle does. Moreover once you are into SQL a lot of other use cases immediately become practical, such as large scale master/slave set-ups for read scaling.
Thanks, Robert On 8/12/08 12:40 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:52 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> What is the attraction of logical application of the WAL logs? >>> Transmitting to a server with different architecture? > >> Yes, > >> * different release >> * different encoding >> * different CPU architecture >> * (with the correct transform) a different DBMS > > The notion that the WAL logs will ever be portable across such > differences is so ... so ... well, it's barely worth laughing at. > > regards, tom lane > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > -- Robert Hodges, CTO, Continuent, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +1-510-501-3728 Skype: hodgesrm -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
