Chris Browne wrote:
> I seem to recall there being a relevant Google Summer of Code project
> about this, last year.
> I do not recall how far it got. It obviously didn't make it into 8.3
> ;-)!
Some parts of it did -- for example we got "read-only transactions"
which were a step towards that goal. (The point here is that a hot
standby needs to be able to execute readonly transactions.)
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