On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 08:14:26PM -0800, Joshua Drake wrote: > > On 12/31/2015 03:34 PM, Petr Jelinek wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I'd like to submit the replication solution which is based on the > > >pglogical_output [1] module (which is obviously needed for this to > > >compile). > > > > This is fantastic! However, history presents itself here and > > PostgreSQL in the past has not "blessed" a single solution for > > Replication. Obviously that changed a bit with streaming replication > > but this is a bit different than that. As I understand it, PgLogical > > is Logical Replication (similar to Slony and Londiste). I wouldn't > > be surprised (although I don't know) if Slony were to start using > > some of the pglogical_output module features in the future. > > > > If we were to accept PgLogical into core, it will become the default > > blessed solution for PostgreSQL. While that is great in some ways > > it is a different direction than the project has taken in the past. > > Is this what we want to do? > > Replying late here, but I think with binary replication, we decided > that, assuming you were happy with the features provided, our streaming > binary replication solution was going to be the best and recommended way > of doing it. > > I don't think we ever had that feeling with Slony or Londiste in that > there were so many limitations and so many different ways of > implementing logical replication that we never recommended a best way. > > So, the question is, do we feel that PgLogical is best and recommended > way to do logical replication. If it is, then having it in core makes > sense. > DDL support is what it's missed for now. > > -- > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us > EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com > > + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + > + Roman grave inscription + > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers >
