Re: [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

I was thinking of something similar to our encryption section:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/encryption-options.html

The idea being to define issues like multi/single master, async vs,
sync, and mention the projects which are in each category.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > >I don't think this sort of material belongs directly into the
> > > > PostgreSQL documentation.
> >
> > Why not?
> 
> PostgreSQL documentation (or any product documentation) should be 
> factual: describe what the software does and give advice on its use.  
> This should be mostly independent of the external circumstances, 
> because people will still read that documentation three or four years 
> from now.
> 
> The proposed text is, at least partially, journalistic: it evaluates 
> competing ideas, gives historical and anecdotal information, reports on 
> current events, and makes speculations about the future.  That is the 
> sort of material that is published in periodicals or other volatile 
> media.
> 
> At the summit, we resolved, for precisely these reasons, to keep the 
> journalistic parts on the web site, for clear separation from the 
> shipped product and for easier updates (and for easier reference as 
> well, because the PostgreSQL documentation is not the single obvious 
> place to look for it) and refer to it from the documentation.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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