Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261394AbVDIWM6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:12:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261395AbVDIWM6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:12:58 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:29393 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261394AbVDIWMw (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:12:52 -0400 From: Florian Weimer To: David Lang Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071428.GB3957@opteron.random> <4256AE0D.201@tiscali.de> <4256BE7D.5040308@tiscali.de> <9e473391050408112865ed5d17@mail.gmail.com> <7dc90bec2ef0a67aa307b8e81005fa84@dalecki.de> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:12:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: (David Lang's message of "Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:50:52 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <87psx34n1a.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 19 * 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). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/