On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 07:55:00PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > 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.
Yep, it is the "assumption and belief" that always confuses me. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
