Re: Future In-Core Replication

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> I would love to see a layout of exactly where these things make sense,
> similar to what we do at the bottom of our documentation for "High
> Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication":
>
>        http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/different-replication-solutions.html
>
> Users and developers just can't seem to get the calculus of where things
> make sense into their heads, me included.
>
> For example, you said that "MM replication alone is not a solution for
> large data or the general case".  Why is that?  Is the goal of your work
> really to do logical replciation, which allows for major version
> upgrades?  Is that the defining feature?

Good question.

The use case, its breadth and utility are always the first place I
start. I'm in the middle of writing a presentation that explains this
from first principles and will be discussing that at the PgCon
meeting. It's taken a long time to articulate that rather than make
leaps of assumption and belief.

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