I have added this text: Commercial Solutions -------------------- Because PostgreSQL is open source and easily extended, a number of companies have taken PostgreSQL and created commercial closed-source solutions with unique failover, replication, and load balancing capabilities.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hannu Krosing wrote: > ?hel kenal p?eval, T, 2006-10-24 kell 22:57, kirjutas Bruce Momjian: > > I don't think the PostgreSQL documentation should be mentioning > > commercial solutions. > > IMNSHO, having commercial solutions based on postgresql which extend > postgres in directions not (yet?) done by core postgres is nothing to be > ashamed of. > > And we should at least mention the OSS version of Bizgres as a place > where quite a lot of initial development is done on performance > improvements considered too risky for mainline postgresql. > > And if you need a more technical reason, you can use free libpq and psql > to connect to even Bizgres MPP ;) > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Luke Lonergan wrote: > > > Bruce, > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian > > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:16 PM > > > > To: Hannu Krosing > > > > Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation; PostgreSQL-development > > > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition > > > > > > > > > > > > OK, I have updated the URL. Please let me know how you like it. > > > > > > There's a typo on line 8, first paragraph: > > > > > > "perhaps with only one server allowing write rwork together at the same > > > time." > > > > > > Also, consider this wording of the last description: > > > > > > "Single-Query Clustering..." > > > > > > Replaced by: > > > > > > "Shared Nothing Clustering > > > ----------------------- > > > > > > This allows multiple servers with separate disks to work together on a > > > each query. > > > In shared nothing clusters, the work of answering each query is > > > distributed among > > > the servers to increase the performance through parallelism. These > > > systems will > > > typically feature high availability by using other forms of replication > > > internally. > > > > > > While there are no open source options for this type of clustering, > > > there are several > > > commercial products available that implement this approach, making > > > PostgreSQL achieve > > > very high performance for multi-Terabyte business intelligence > > > databases." > > > > > > - Luke > > > -- > ---------------- > Hannu Krosing > Database Architect > Skype Technologies O? > Akadeemia tee 21 F, Tallinn, 12618, Estonia > > Skype me: callto:hkrosing > Get Skype for free: http://www.skype.com -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster