Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Composite table types, replicate + distribute.

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Ashutosh Bapat <
ash...@en...> wrote:

> Hi Joseph,
> I have come across this question about supporting mixed distribution
> strategy a few times by now.
>
> We have to judge it's advantages (taking into consideration that there can
> be solutions outside of core XC for the same) against the efforts required
> for implementing and maintaining it. If the pains in a. using third
> party/outside XC solutions 2. implementing and maintaining it in core and
> using it are more of less same, we may have to leave it out of the core at
> least for some near future. If we take option 2 and find that using it is
> equally painful as the option 1, we wasted our effort. In order to judge
> the 2nd point, we can look at some other DBMS available with these features
> and how do they perform from various aspects. So following questions are
> relevant :- Is there another distributed database, having a similar scheme
> of mixed distribution available? How (and widely) is that feature being
> used in field? What is the pain point in using such a feature?

Good point here, indeed. Thanks for pointing that.
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Michael Paquier
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