Re: Fwd: Start up question about triggers

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:16:17AM +0300, Forums @ Existanze wrote:
>> I looked into slony, I have a question though, how would I go about
>> controlling slony via a jdbc driver? See this whole problem has arisen
>> because for some reason my client wants to keep to separate databases in two
>> separate locations with the same data. So he would call this partiall backup
>> function via a GUI client we provide, and with this information he would go
>> to the same GUI client in this other location and import this partiall
>> backup. 
> 
> It is totally normal to want to keep two databases in two locations:
> that's a matter of safety.  Slony does it automatically, as long as
> the daemon is running.  No need to control it.

But with file-based log shipping (see 
http://linuxfinances.info/info/logshipping.html) one could write a Java 
app to control when the updates are applied.

Joe