Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-02 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Bruce Momjian wrote: The idea being to define issues like multi/single master, async vs, sync, and mention the projects which are in each category. You could even add shared-nothing vs. shared-disk nodes. Generally I'd say it makes sense to 'educate' people, but does it really make sense

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
I was thinking of something similar to our encryption section: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/encryption-options.html The idea being to define issues like multi/single master, async vs, sync, and mention the projects which are in each category. ---

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > >I don't think this sort of material belongs directly into the > > > PostgreSQL documentation. > > Why not? PostgreSQL documentation (or any product documentation) should be factual: describe what the software does and give advice on its use. This should be mostly inde

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > >>>I don't think this sort of material belongs directly into the PostgreSQL > >>>documentation. > > > >Why not? > > Well Peter said that, not me :) I know, but I though I'd post one message instead of two. (In fact I

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: I don't think this sort of material belongs directly into the PostgreSQL documentation. Why not? Well Peter said that, not me :) It might be interesting to have some links in the external projects area for replication, but a section of its ow

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >I don't think this sort of material belongs directly into the PostgreSQL > >documentation. Why not? > It might be interesting to have some links in the external projects area > for replication, but a section of its own doesn't seem relevant. I disagree about "having

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
1. post information on pgsql-general 1.a. solicit comments 2. put information page on web site 3. link from documentation to web site You seem to have short-circuited all that. I don't think this sort of material belongs directly into the PostgreSQL documentation. It might be interesting to

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Chris Browne wrote: > Here's a patch to add in the material on replication recently > discussed on pgsql.docs. I'm not thrilled that there were only a few > comments made; I'd be happy to see "slicing and dicing" to see this > made more useful. The agreed-to process was 1. post information on pg

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Replication Documentation

2006-08-01 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Thanks for mentioning about pgpool! > pgpool > > pgpool was initially created by > Tatsuo Isshii as a portable alternative to Java connection pool > modules. He subsequently observed that it wouldn't take very much > effort to extend it to create a simple replication sy