Re: Kernel SCM saga..

Florian Weimer
2005-04-09T22:12:58Z

* David Lang:

>> 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 aware of *any* DBMS, commercial or not, which can perform
meaningful multi-master replication on tables which mainly consist of
text files as records. All you can get is single-master replication
(which is well-understood), or some rather scary stuff which involves
throwing away updates, or taking extrema or averages (even automatic
3-way merges aren't available).