Re: Real time replication of PG DBs accross two servers -

Hello Bruno,

If we successfully commit on the master but fail on the slave, we simply
log a "Major Error" & then the dbs would have to be manually made
consistent.  However, in practice this has never happened (the 1st
application has been running 24/7 for 5 years).

As you say, you have to be careful with sequences.  How we handle them is:

(master) -- select nextval('seqname');  insert ... etc.
(slave) -- select setval('seqname', 'seqvalue'); ...

i.e., we only ever select the next seq. no. from the master & always sync.
to the slave.

Regards - Paul

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 14:44:57 +0100,
>   Paul Breen <pbreen@computerpark.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> The way we approached it was to do the replication ourselves at the
>> application level.  This isn't as hard as it sounds: you just open 2 db
>> connections (1 to the master, 1 to the slave), start transactions on
>> both
>> connections, then write your data.  If an error occurs on either
>> connection, you rollback on both connections.  This means you can still
>> have writes that fail (for whatever reason) but both dbs are
>> _consistent_.
>
> This is guarenteed to work in general. When there are concurrent
> transactions,
> one transaction may succeed on commit and the other fail. If you are using
> sequences you could also end up with different values in each database.
> That may or may not be a problem depending on how you use them.
>


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