Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>
> >>>> To be fair :) the only thing that makes Slony notable for PostgreSQL is
> >>>> that it is Open Source. There are other replication systems out there
> >>>> that have been working for some time.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Uh, and we are an open source project --- Slony being "open source"
> >>> seems like a very notable distinction to me.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks for pointing out what I already had :)
> >
> > My point was that saying it is the "only thing" that makes it notable is
> > to minimize a major point of pushing Slony.  It is "the" notable issue.
>
> Not it isn't, as there are other Open Source replication solutions for
> PostgreSQL, as I pointed out before ... Slony is effectively "the fashion
> of the day", and next release, there could be 'yet another of the many'
> that is that much better ...

Under which case, we'll be talking about that solution.

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