Hi list, My boss would like to convert from MySQL to PostgreSQL, but there are a few things that hold us back.
We'd like to have the databases in several physical servers, with referential integrity between the tables. Reading from Oracle articles, their referential integrity can be done using their dblink and triggers. What I'd like to ask is whether contrib/dblink is stable? Seeing dblink in a contrib directory does bring a doubt (though we've read many success stories with dblink). And can the Oracle's way of doing referential integrity be used in PostgreSQL? Is it recommended to do that? I've read the PostgreSQL's TODO list, and I can't find anything about 2-phase commit being implemented in 8.0. Is this correct? Because I also read there's a 2PC patch being implemented (http://snaga.org/pgsql/). But progress seems to have stopped (correct me if I'm wrong). Basically, our concern is that dblink, 2PC implementation are there, but not in the PostgreSQL mainstream. Another thing that bothers us is that we can't find any multi-master clustering solution in PostgreSQL. We're actually evaluating MySQL's own clustering solution, but it's production quality release is still slated for MySQL 5.0. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
