Re: [HACKERS] Release Note changes

On 4 September 2017 at 12:11, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's not really true that the only alternatives to pglogical are
> proprietary.  Really, one could use any logical replication solution,
> and there have been multiple open source alternatives for a decade.

True, but it is by far the best solution out of the many choices.

Which is why next year when upgrading from PG10 -> PG11 we will
mention it and that point not mention the other older solutions, which
were once our best.

>> Our docs mention pglogical already, so don't see an issue with
>> mentioning it here.
>
> The existing reference is alongside a bunch of other third-party
> tools.  Mentioning it at the very top of our release notes would give
> it a pride of place with which I'm not too comfortable.

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