Re: "Too far out of the mainstream"

Hi,

On 5 September 2012 12:14, Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com> wrote:

> So people are using PostgreSQL in roles that aren't very visible anyway,
> DBA's are usually coming to PostgreSQL from other RDBMS's, and few
> applications are really distributed for PostgreSQL.

> <snip>

>  Not only
> this but there was significant interest in moving more db's to PostgreSQL,
> but the big limitation is that everyone who knows PostgreSQL already has a
> job.

Some shops are going opposite way -- from PostgreSQL to MySQL like
databases because of missing replication features. The 9.1 caught up
but there is no multi-master replication like in Percona's XtraDB
cluster: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb-cluster/

Postgres-XC can solve this missing multi-master replication issue but
"nobody" knows that this project exists. Another project is "Galera
Cluster for PostgreSQL" (Galera is used in XtraDB) but this looks like
vaporware...