[Gllug] Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:09:42PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> 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.

It's essential for using one, though, for anything where your salary is
on the line.  For all the things that I don't like about MySQL, setting
up replication is trivial and uncomplicated, as is almost every other
aspect of the feature.

-- 
Bruce

Explota!: miles de lemmings no pueden estar equivocados.
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