On Aug 11, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Jeff Eckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:That probably won't impress your bosses. If you need a track record, then erServer might be what you need. erServer is a commercially produced product that was (is still?) used by Afilias, the provider of registry services for the .info and .org domains. That's serious testing; very large databases and lots of traffic.
Note that Afilias paid for the development of Slony-I;
... because they were quite unhappy with erServer ...
Now erServer did work for them, but it required significant amounts of
tuning and constant babysitting by the DBA. (If Andrew Sullivan is
paying attention to this thread, he can offer lots of gory details.)
I can also personally testify that getting erServer set up is a major
pain in the rear. I haven't messed with Slony, but all reports are that
it's a substantially better piece of code.
regards, tom lane
---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
As the last person to do any significant work on the eRServer code (at least the
open-source version), I would have to agree that Slony is the direction to
take looking forward. I would like to think we managed to fix a lot of problems, and
improved the usability of it quite a bit, but Andrew Sullivan and I agreed that its a dead
end - there will be a final packaging of what's in CVS and that will be it, unless someone else
wants to pick it up.
--------------------
Andrew Rawnsley President The Ravensfield Digital Resource Group, Ltd. (740) 587-0114 www.ravensfield.com
---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
