On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 03:31:10PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > > I realized that we would never get community acceptance to dump the > XC > > (or XL) code needed for sharding into community Postgres > > > > > > How or why did you realize that? There has never been any such > discussion, > > AFAIK. Surely it can be possible to move required subsystems across? > > Well, I have had many such discussions with XC/XL folks, and that was my > opinion. I have seen almost no public discussion about this because the > idea had almost no chance of success. If it was possible, someone would > have already suggested it on this list. > Or perhaps people invested in this area had other obligations or lacked motivation and/or time to work to push up for things in core. That's not possible to know, and what is done is done. > > July, 2015: Oleg Bartunov and his new company Postgres Professional > (PP) > > started to think about joining the FDW approach, rather than working > on > > XL, as they had stated at PGCon in June. A joint NTT/EDB/PP phone-in > > meeting is scheduled for September 1. > > > > August, 2015: While speaking at SFPUG, Citus Data approached me > about > > joining the FDW sharding team. They have been invited to the > September > > 1 meeting, as have the XC and XL people. > > > > > > 2ndQuadrant is working in this area, specifically bringing XL 9.5 > forwards. > > Yes, I saw the blog post about that: > > http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/working-towards-postgres-xl-9-5/ > > > Please can invites be posted to myself, Pavan Deolasee and Petr Jelinek > also? > > I'll pass on to others also. > > OK, I will send you a separate email and you can then supply their email > addresses. > FWIW, I would be interested in that as well. I worked in this area of things for a couple of years as well FWIW. > > Koichi Suzuki is arranging a meeting in Hong Long for XC/XL discussions. > > Presumably EDB is invited also? If Koichi is a leading organizer of > this, why > > are there two meetings? > > I certainly have heard nothing about it, except third-hand people > telling me a meeting is happening. I assumed those meetings where > XC/XL-specific. > Yep, that's my understanding as well and AFAIK as I know things have been carried this way until now, aka XC/XL and Postgres core are aimed to live as separate communities. -- Michael
