Re: [DOCS] [Pgcluster-general] PostgreSQL Documentation of

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hello Bruce, > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > OK, but how does explaining the terms help our users? > > As we even have on sort-of-a solution for shared disk clusters (the > Shared Disk Failover part), we should explain this term (as you already > do there). > > Clarif

Re: [DOCS] [Pgcluster-general] PostgreSQL Documentation of

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hi, > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Oh, I am not aware of pgcluster-II. Did you mean pgpool-II? I think > > so. > > No, I really mean PGCluster-II. Didn't you attend A. Mitani's speech > about PGCluster? Check his slides: > > http://conference.postgresql.org/download

Re: [DOCS] "Clustering"

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote: > > That reminds me of the requirement of having Multi Master Replication in > > place to do Parallel Query Execution. Sync Multi Master Replication > > being better, while Async Multi Master Replication obviously leads to > > inconsistent responses

[DOCS] Replication Docs

2006-11-22 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hello Bruce, I was trying to put together all comments to specific sections, thus the new thread. Hope that helps. *** Synchronous Multi-Master Replication *** Bruce Momjian wrote: > OK, new title is "Synchonous Multi-Master Replication", and the next > heading is "Asynchronous Multi-Master R

Re: [DOCS] [Sequoia] PostgreSQL Documentation of High Availability and Load

2006-11-22 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hello Emmanuel, Emmanuel Cecchet wrote: Even here I think that there is a common misconception between performance and scalability. Most people think that by having multiple nodes their query will run faster which is obviously wrong if your original workload does not saturate a single node.

Re: [DOCS] Replication Docs

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hello Bruce, > > I was trying to put together all comments to specific sections, thus the > new thread. Hope that helps. > > *** Synchronous Multi-Master Replication *** > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > OK, new title is "Synchonous Multi-Master Replication", and the ne

Re: [DOCS] Replication Docs

2006-11-22 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Bruce Momjian wrote: OK, it is two separate entries now: http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/high-availability.html Yes, that's fine with me. Uh, good point. The title is now "Statement-Based Replication Middleware". That doesn't say multi-master, but it doesn't say mas

Re: [DOCS] [Sequoia] PostgreSQL Documentation of High Availability

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hello Emmanuel, > > Emmanuel Cecchet wrote: > >>> Even here I think that there is a common misconception between > >>> performance and scalability. Most people think that by having > >>> multiple nodes their query will run faster which is obviously wrong > >>> if yo

Re: [DOCS] Replication Docs

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hi, > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > OK, it is two separate entries now: > > > > http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/high-availability.html > > Yes, that's fine with me. Good. > > Uh, good point. The title is now "Statement-Based Replication > > Middleware"

Re: [DOCS] bytea vs standard_conforming_strings

2006-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > The discussion of bytea in section 8.4, > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-binary.html > is obsolete because it assumes that standard_conforming_strings is > always OFF. It could be very much simpler and shorter if > standard_conforming_strings were always