Re: The reasoning behind having several features outside

On 10/30/2004 3:39 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>>> Replication is one subsystem not included in source tree. But PostgreSQL
>>> has other subsystems that are included such as plugins for procedural
>>> languages. So isn't the same risks involved with them?
>>>
>>
>> No, not really. Because items such as plPerl don't require
>> changes to the backend. Replication requires changes to the backend.
>
> Replication doesn't require changes to the backend ... neither eRServer or
> Slony-I do, at least ...

Slony-II will probably need some additional features. But I consider it
a sign for an immature design not to be able to define those features in
form of an API and instead starting to hack together a prototype inside
of the backend that later down the road will get promoted to a solution
because there never will be any time to turn the findings of that
explore-phase into a design and develop according to that.


Jan

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