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Re: 8.4 release planning

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-01-27T16:21:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 10:51 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Without an integrated and fairly high-performance log
> shipping capability, they are not going to find HS very compelling.
> Claiming otherwise is just wishful thinking.

What HS will give us is same or better than the equivalent feature in
latest release of Oracle. Oracle requires you to manually
freeze/unfreeze the standby and so the data is never even close to being
current.

For us, it might be better if it was streamed, but its not a critically
important issue for most users. An idle server is.

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