Any *current* summary of postgres-r 7.2 status? (was Re: Feature Request for 7.5)

On Thursday 04 December 2003 00:34, Jan Wieck wrote:

> You must have misunderstood something there. The whole idea of
> Postgres-R is how to "avoid" the need for 2-phase commit in a
> synchronous replication system.

I've been looking at postgres-r and other postgres replication
temporary solutions.  does anyone have a good *current* summary
of postgres-r status?  from the website it looks like the working model
is based on 6.2.  is postgres-r 6.2 supposed to be good enough
for production?  that's what i'd assume "working model" means,
but confirmation from people who've actually stress tested it would
be great :).

the 7.2 version is the development version.  i don't see much detail
(documentation) though on how stable the 7.2 version is.  looking
at the docs in the download itself, everything seems to refer to generic
7.2. i don't see anything that looks like postgres-r specific documentation.
so i can't tell what things are implemented and what things still
need to be implemented (but of course i might just not be looking
hard enough for the data. to be honest, i'm just grepping for
"replication", opening files that look like they might be interesting
and scanning them, it's not like i've read everything in the doc
directory).

in doc/TODO.detail/replication, there's a bunch of emails, but the
last one seems to be from 2001.

there's src/backend/replication/README, but that seems to discuss
only 6.2 work. i could do a diff, i suppose between the working model
and 7.2, but i can't right now.  i'm behind a dialup modem and it would
take too long to download 6.2 :).  maybe tomorrow at the office :).

but again, if someone has detailed and up-to-date information (summary
or in detail) on the 7.2 postgres-r status, that would be incredibly
cool :).

hmmm, there's a mailing list.  archives at:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/pgreplication-general/

i didn't see any detailed summary of what's missing in 7.2 though.
oh well, i'll just set up some test servers and just play with
it for now, i guess.

thanks for any information.

tiger

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