Re: replication/redundancy

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:31:09AM -0700, Jonathan Gardner wrote:

<snip>
> The really cool thing about pgreplication will be that it is
> hot-swappable. If one of the servers goes down, the whole thing will
> still work. You can also add databases to the system on-the-fly.
> That way, you can always keep one (or two or three) extra stand-by databases.

This is also provided by my system, but with some strict limitations:

* all tables must have the same first three fields: inode_id, mtime, attr
  (im using inherited tables, perhaps thats not needed)
* on each write operation, the mtime field must be set accurately
  (im currently not using an rule, since i dont know if there's an
  way to disabled this within an query -- perhaps someone can help here)
* currently only an explicit sync-out is supported - from time to time
  evry table has to be scanned for new records
* currently no real conflict handling

perhaps we can improve this a little bit.

cu
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