[Gllug] Linux support options

[Richard Huxton]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:53:27PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
>> Richard Jones writes:
>>
>>> Sounds like a good reason to switch to PostgreSQL and ditch the
>>> awfulness of Oracle.
>> For all I dislike Oracle (and that's quite a lot), it does still
>> provide some features that can't be matched by the free software
>> databases.
> 
> PostgreSQL in particular has really terrible replication.  Slony is
> bloddy awful and makes MySQL replication look good.  Then there's
> clustering...

Out of curiosity, what problems did you have with Slony?

There is a company out there doing some form of clustering for 
PostgreSQL, btw. I don't know what stage it's at, but it's designed for 
off-the-shelf (albeit expensive) hardware.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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