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Re: 8.4 release planning

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, "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>
Date: 2009-01-27T22:15:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> That's modest. I've talked to several oracle and db2 shops that want a standby 
> for reporting that has relatively easy setup/maintenance (handling ddl is a 
> big part of this) and the HS feature your working on will give them something 
> as good as what they are getting now. So yeah, HS appeals to future users as 
> well.  

I've talked to some of my clients, and while they *want* synch or 
near-synch HS, even slow HS is useful to them *now*.

One client is planning on deploying a rather complex FS cloning 
infrastructure just to have a bunch of reporting, testing and read-only 
search databases they need.  They'd be thrilled with an HS feature which 
produced DBs which were an hour out of date (or even 6 hours out of 
date), but ran read-only queries.

--Josh.