Horton

Re: beta testing version

Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>

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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
Cc: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-02T21:52:27Z
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Don Baccus wrote:

...
> Will Great Bridge step to the plate and fund a truly open source alternative,
> leaving us with a potential code fork?  If IB gets its political problems
> under control and developers rally around it, two years is going to be a
> long time to just sit back and wait for PG, Inc to release eRServer.

  I doubt that.  There is an IB (Interbase) replication option today, but
you must purchase it.  That isn't so bad actually.  PostgreSQL looks to be
going that way too:  base functionality is open source, periphial
companies make money selling extensions.

  Besides simple master-slave replication is old news anyhow, and not
terribly useful.  Products like FrontBase (www.frontbase.com) have full
shared-nothing cluster support too (FrontBase is commerical).  Clustering
is a much better solution for redundancy purposes that replication.


Tom