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Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>

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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-17T17:17:18Z
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On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Most hopefully this is very discouraging! Connection pools are a nice
> > thing and I have used pgpool recently with great success, for pooling
> > connections. But attempting to deliver multimaster replication as a
> > byproduct of a connection pool isn't going to become an enterprise
> > feature. And the more half-baked, half-functional and half-reliable
> > replication attempts there are, the harder it will be to finally get a
> > real solution being recognized.
>
> Well, considering we offer _nothing_ for multi-master right now, I think
> it is a valuable project.

Connection pooling is *not* multi master ... it doesn't even simulate
multi-master ... multi-master, at least as far as I'm aware, means "no
point of failure", and connection pooling creates a *single* point of
failure ... the pgpool process dies, you've lost all connections to the
database ...

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