Re: 8.4 release planning

Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>   
>> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>>     
>>> So, some feedback to make this decision more difficult:
>>>       
>>> Users: care about HS more than anything else in the world.
>>>       
>> I don't think this is correct.  There are certainly a lot of users who
>> would like an in-core replication solution, but HS by itself is not that
>> --- you also need (near) real-time log shipping, which we have already
>> decided to punt to 8.5.  That being the case, I think the argument
>> that HS is a must-have feature for 8.4 is actually rather weak.
>>     
>
> I don't buy that. Sure, sync-rep would be the icing on the cake, but
> HS with a small archive_timeout (even of the order of 10 or 15
> minutes) would have been extremely useful on a number of systems I
> used to run.
>
>
>   
+1

I have customers who want exactly this - a simple to administer, 
query-able slave that does DDL transparently and is up to date within a 
controllable time frame. Bluntly, it looks like a killer feature.

regards

Mark