Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > I would be willing to call a PG release 8.0 when it has built-in
> > replication support --- that would be the sort of major-league
> > functionality jump that would justify a top-number bump.
> ACK.
> A major release (for me) implies some really major improvement.
> Replication would be such a thing.
>
> BTW: is there anything working yet in this direction ?
> I know several "userland" implementations (w/ triggers), and I also
> doing symetric (masterless) replication in my middleware framework,
> but when will pgsql be able to do it by itself ?
> And when will probably load balancing come ?
All replication work is being done as add-ons because then people can
choose the replication solution that works best for them. We don't
think a single solution can fit all needs.
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