Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

Chris Travers wrote:
> > Please stop looking at Afilias as a 3rd party. Afilias is a member of
> > the PGDG as everyone else. The problem that even people inside of this
> > community can't imagine a company being just a member of this team
> > doesn't mean that it is impossible.
> >
> While you have a valid point from the perspective of the community, I
> think there is an issue which is legitimate here.  That is that people
> see the fact that Slony does not come with the PostgreSQL tarball.  From
> this perspective "we" do not have a "replication" solution.  Like it or
> not, this is a viewpoint many evaluators have.  To them, this is still a
> third-party add-on, even though it was developed primarily by core
> members of the PostgreSQL community.
>
> How do we combat this issue?  Do we release Slony with PostgreSQL?  Does
> that really make sense (the general concensus seems to be "no")?  Do we
> release a different distribution of PostgreSQL which includes Slony?  I
> think that this would be a good idea, but....
>
> Also, will it be possible to see a Win32 port of Slony at some point?

Why would Slony _not_ work on Win32?  Has anyone tested it?

--
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 359-1001
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  13 Roberts Road
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073