On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:22:48PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:19:52AM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:10:43PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > > application.  AFAIK, there is no stable multimaster async system
> > > available for Postgres.
> > 
> > You could have left the last two words off that sentence without
> > reducing its validity :)
> 
> Well, my understanding is that Sybase's system works, for some value
> thereof.  And people apparently do use it for production-grade
> systems.  Now, whether _I_ would do so is another matter.
> 
> But people really do seem to need to hear that multimaster
> replication of any kind is a _hard problem_.

Yes!

> This isn't something you're gonna throw together in a day.

*I* won't throw such a thing together, as I lack the needed hubris,
but Others do with depressing frequency and even more depressing
results.

> This work was visionary and imaginative, and goes to show that
> visionary and imaginative work need not end up well. 
> 		--Dennis Ritchie

Heh.

Cheers,
D
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