Re: Integrating Replication into Core

Hi,

David Boreham wrote:
> I've worked on an emulated test rig for a replication system (not RDBMS 
> but for LDAP).
> We used netem (OSS)

Thanks. I've already heard about that one some while ago, but didn't 
remember it. I'll have another look.

> for the network emulation and a pile of python and 
> shell scripts and
> C client test apps.
> Testing replication is hard, of course, and you have to roll most of it 
> yourself :(

Yeah, I'm also using python for that.

>> If you know such a thing, please email me! (I've looked at STAF, but 
>> that seems overly complex and targeted at completely different use-case.)
> 
> In my experience test frameworks tend to provide less useful 
> functionality than one might hope.
> Sometimes to the point that they're hardly worth bothering with at all.

ACK. Same experience here.

Regards

Markus