Re: Kernel SCM saga..

David Lang
2005-04-09T01:54:06Z

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> On 2005-04-08, at 20:28, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>> On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>>> How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough
>>> clues to do it for "git" in probably five lines of perl.
>>
>> Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the transaction
>> logs and then replaying them. Most mid to high end databases support
>> this. You only need to copy the parts of the logs that you don't
>> already have.
>>
> Databases supporting replication are called high end. You forgot the cats
> dance
> around the network this issue involves.

And Postgres (which is Free in all senses of the word) is high end by this
definition.

I'm not saying that it's an efficiant thing to use for this task, but
don't be fooled into thinking you need something on the price of Oracle to
do this job.

David Lang

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