simon2Q

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by simon2Q 10y ago
The purpose of extensions is they allow you to run stuff without including it in core database. What language should be used for this case to avoid confusion in future?
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by simon2Q 10y ago
Postgres-BDR works very well for its intended business use case, which is geographically distributed multiple master database. Master-slave replication is not comparable cos there is only one master. You should use as few masters as your bu
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by simon2Q 10y ago
If you have users in various locations, all of whom would like local access to a copy of the database.
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by simon2Q 10y ago
Postgres-R is dead. No need to look. Postgres-XC has never implemented multi-master, so don't look there. Postgres-XZ, if it exists, is a closed-source fork of XC by a Chinese company. Postgres-XL implements cluster scaling for queries
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by simon2Q 10y ago
"Everything after "Basically" is misleading and inaccurate. The conclusions here are not logical: The existence of some restrictions does not imply "Transactions are a lie", since that makes us think ALL transaction
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by simon2Q 10y ago
I agree that you should use the best tools for the current project. That is why we need to discuss which tool is the best and in what cases, which is all we've been doing here: providing the information people need to make reasonable c
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by simon2Q 10y ago
I believe the blog site does run MySQL. We eat our own dogfood wherever possible, especially on important services... we hadn't regarded the blog site in the same category until now.
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by simon2Q 10y ago
Which is exactly what happened and we fixed it fairly quickly, within the SLA we offer to customers. So I'm happy. I accept all of the humour on that point with a grin myself, though I must say its a nice problem to have. Thanks to eve
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by simon2Q 10y ago
9.1 to 9.5/9.6 upgrade should be available for customers by Oct
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by simon2Q 10y ago
I've tried to produce a full reply to most of the technical points raised there. http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/thoughts-on-ubers-list-of-postgr...
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Thoughts on Uber's List of Postgres Limitations(blog.2ndquadrant.com)
7 points by simon2Q 10y ago|0 comments