Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-10 Thread Jan Wieck
Christopher Browne wrote: Further bonus: the "GUI project" need only have a database connection to one of the databases to control things. No need for ANYTHING else. After fleshing it out a little, that's a pretty slick approach. You miss the point, sorry. This "make GUI easy to write" approach

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-09 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jochem van Dieten) wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> I personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of >> the Slony project. Seriously. I think that Slony should focus on >> a command-line api and catalogs, and allow the existing GUI

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-08 Thread Andreas Pflug
Jan Wieck wrote: Alex J. Avriette wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:47:23AM +0100, Jochem van Dieten wrote: >I personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of the >Slony project. Seriously. I think that Slony should focus on a I very much agree with this, but this is Jan'

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-07 Thread Jan Wieck
Jochem van Dieten wrote: Jan Wieck said: The communication channels are "event" tables. The node daemons use listen and notify to send messages from on to another. Messages are only exchanged over this when the replication cluster configuration is changed or every 10 seconds to tell "new replicat

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-07 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jan Wieck said: > > The communication channels are "event" tables. The node daemons > use listen and notify to send messages from on to another. > Messages are only exchanged over this when the replication cluster > configuration is changed or every 10 seconds to tell "new > replication data has

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-07 Thread Jan Wieck
Alex J. Avriette wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:47:23AM +0100, Jochem van Dieten wrote: >I personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of the >Slony project. Seriously. I think that Slony should focus on a I very much agree with this, but this is Jan's baby, so I didn't s

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-05 Thread Alex J. Avriette
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:47:23AM +0100, Jochem van Dieten wrote: > >I personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of the > >Slony project. Seriously. I think that Slony should focus on a I very much agree with this, but this is Jan's baby, so I didn't say anything. I have

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Josh Berkus wrote: I personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of the Slony project. Seriously. I think that Slony should focus on a command-line api and catalogs, and allow the existing GUI projects to build a slony-supporting interface. Why a command line api? I believe

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-04 Thread Josh Berkus
Jan, > What I am looking for is a super-comfortable GUI application that makes > planning and configuring a master-cascaded-multislave replication system > doable by everyone who can identify a clickable button. I personally don't think that a GUI tool should be the province of the Slony project

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-03 Thread Jan Wieck
Followup-To: Slony1-general ML Alex J. Avriette wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:57:28PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote: After some substantial progress on the Slony-I engine development, I'd like to give a little status report and invite everyone who wants to participate in this project to join the m

Re: [HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-03 Thread Alex J. Avriette
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:57:28PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote: > After some substantial progress on the Slony-I engine development, I'd > like to give a little status report and invite everyone who wants to > participate in this project to join the mailing list and the development > team. Jan, than

[HACKERS] Slony-I makes progress

2004-03-03 Thread Jan Wieck
After some substantial progress on the Slony-I engine development, I'd like to give a little status report and invite everyone who wants to participate in this project to join the mailing list and the development team. The project homepage is here: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony