On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:55:45PM -0400, David Parker wrote:
> I would be interested and grateful to hear opinions about the relative
> strengths of erserver and slony from anybody who has experience with
> them or works on their development. 

My employer (Afilias) sponsored the original work to make rserv into
erserver.  We've used erserver for almost 3 years, and some time last
year, I concluded that, while erserver was a good stopgap solution
and had met several of our needs, there were several designed-in
problems that would be extremely hard to solve.

It was a good stopgap measure, and it worked for us.  But it had too
many assumptions about the actual database use patterns, and I think
that was a serious error.  It's why we asked Jan to concentrate on
replication as his first main task.  Use Slony.  It's intended as the
replacement.

A

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