Re: Joshua Drake's "What MySQL Can Learn From PostgreSQL" talk at MySQL Con 2008

Chris Browne wrote:

> I am as "pro-having-in-place-upgrades" as it comes, but it should be
> noted that upgrading via Slony-I was one of the intended use cases in
> its design, and that use case has certainly been successfully
> addressed.

Also, plans are forthcoming for improving vacuum so that it will be no
longer such a huge problem even in "high velocity" databases.

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