Re: 10 weeks to feature freeze (Pending Work)

Jim Nasby wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 2:38 pm, t...@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) wrote:
>>> Rick Gigger <r...@alpinenetworking.com> writes:
>>>> I thought that the following todo item just barely missed 8.2:
>>>> "Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only statements [pitr]
>>>
>>> No, it's a someday-wishlist item; the work involved is not small.
>>
>> Slony1 has supported log-shipping replication for about a year now. It
>> provides similar functionality.
> 
> Not really....
> 
> 1) It's not possible for a PITR 'slave' to fall behind to a state where 
> it will never catch up, unless it's just on inadequate hardware. Same 
> isn't true with slony.
> 2) PITR handles DDL seamlessly
> 3) PITR is *much* simpler to configure and maintain

Which is why I was hoping for a PITR based solution.  Oh well, I will 
have to figure out what is my best option now that I know it will not be 
available any time in the near future.