Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken Gazette - Issue 13

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:32:24AM +0100, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> > == 2. Core development
> > The scrutinizer was updated to give a warning when a one-armed `if`
> > is used in tail-position, as suggested on chicken-users by Jörg
> > Wittenberg.
> 
> sure?  or is -- no, wait, no "git" struggle now.  spare me, please!

Just wait for the next dev snapshot.

> As I said with a smiley in the other posting: I would never enter into a
> religious war.
> 
> Therefore I have to raise a flag in favour of the great SQLite data
> base!
> 
> Right here!
> 
> Why?:  How does your PostgreSQL handle master-master replication?

I've never had use for that so I don't really know.  But this wiki page
sounds hopeful:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication%2C_Clustering%2C_and_Connection_Pooling#Comparison_matrix

I didn't know SQLite had any replication whatsoever at all.  Or did you
roll your own?  If so, you could do that with any database!

> What
> if I mount a man in the middle attack on one of your master replicas and
> inject fake update packets?  Will I be able to tamper with your data
> base?  Too bad for you!!!  ;-)

That's what SSL connections (with client certificates) are for.

Cheers,
Peter
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