Re: Slony-I makes progress

Christopher Browne wrote:

> 
> Further bonus: the "GUI project" need only have a database connection
> to one of the databases to control things.  No need for ANYTHING else.
> 
> After fleshing it out a little, that's a pretty slick approach.

You miss the point, sorry.

This "make GUI easy to write" approach leads to one major problem. When 
a central server in the cluster dies and the communication path's need 
to be redirected and the utility needs to contact all the remaining 
servers because they're not doing the big group chat always, but now 
their regular communication path is disrupted ... your GUI (the only 
thing wannabe-DBA's know) becomes useless and the whole plan with 
failover and backup systems falls apart.


Jan

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