[Gllug] Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu

[Richard Turner]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:57 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> This is relevant, because the core Postresql development community is
> as
> obtuse on the subject of replication now as MySQL AB was about ACID
> then.  This is made all the more galling by the fact that some of them
> make a living from either selling proprietary replication solutions or
> consulting services based on the various flaky open source add-ons. 

I'd argue that the lack of decent integrated replication doesn't make
PostgreSQL a bad DB - it functions perfectly well as an RDBMS without
that feature and if third parties are putting-in the effort to build
replication solutions then that leaves the Pg developers free to
concentrate on the most important bit, which is ensuring that the RDBMS
itself works well. Really, replication is an add-on and whilst it may be
essential to you and your business it's clearly not essential when
developing an RDBMS.

The same can't really be said of ACID compliance.

R.

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