On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> I would love to see a layout of exactly where these things make sense, > similar to what we do at the bottom of our documentation for "High > Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication": > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/different-replication-solutions.html > > Users and developers just can't seem to get the calculus of where things > make sense into their heads, me included. > > For example, you said that "MM replication alone is not a solution for > large data or the general case". Why is that? Is the goal of your work > really to do logical replciation, which allows for major version > upgrades? Is that the defining feature? Good question. The use case, its breadth and utility are always the first place I start. I'm in the middle of writing a presentation that explains this from first principles and will be discussing that at the PgCon meeting. It's taken a long time to articulate that rather than make leaps of assumption and belief. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
