<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Dave Cramer</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 December 2015 at 19:53, Jan Wieck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jan@wi3ck.info" target="_blank">jan@wi3ck.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 12/21/2015 05:44 PM, David Fetter wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:45:04AM -0300, "Gonzalo Vásquez @ Waypoint" wrote:<br>
>> Is it actually possible to somehow use Slony with Amazon’s RDS<br>
>> service? I’m aware that there’s no such thing as a host that you can<br>
>> log into to make Slony’s configurations, but perhaps it can be done<br>
>> remotely from a side server or something like that?<br>
><br>
> You would need to get access to RDS's catalog that you don't have, so<br>
> my best guess is, "no." That's the technical side.<br>
><br>
> On the business side, Amazon has very strong incentives to block<br>
> anything that might let you migrate off their services easily, so my<br>
> best guess is that any attempt to do this would be treated by Amazon<br>
> as an attack.<br>
<br>
</span>On the technical side it would make a lot of sense to actually support<br>
the strongest replication system, that has been though the test of time<br>
for cross platform, cross version upgrade for a decade now.<br>
<br>
But then again, that would mean to invest in people and that means<br>
becoming dependent on individuals. So on the business side it doesn't<br>
make that much sense. Hire and fire businesses like Amazon cannot depend<br>
on skilled individuals.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Jan, That might be a little hasty. The community in general has great contacts inside of amazon that have been there since the beginnin</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>