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Re: 7.4?

Medi Montaseri <medi.montaseri@intransa.com>

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From: Medi Montaseri <medi.montaseri@intransa.com>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, Joe Tomcat <tomcat@mobile.mp>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-26T19:31:38Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
How about a feature as in Informix where you could specify a database_id 
where then
thru a realm.conf file you map that id to a hostname:databasename

then saying

database.schema.table mapps to    hostname.database.schema.table

This way the applications can do a bit HA or distributed DB...

Neil Conway wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 22:44, Ed L. wrote:
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>>And do I understand correctly the replication to be eventually 
>>included will be an embedded syncronous replication solution based on 
>>Postgres-R and the Spread GCS?
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>No, I don't think that's set in stone (although I can't speak for the
>core team). While I think Postgres-R is promising, there might be room
>for additional replication implementations that cater to different sets
>of requirements.
>
>IMHO, eventually providing solutions for both synchronous and
>asynchronous replication would be a good idea.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Neil
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