Re: Global Sequences

On 10/15/12 2:33 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> 3) Lazy allocation from the value space. When a node is close to
> running out of values, it requests a new allocation and coordinates
> with all nodes to confirm the new allocation is good.
> 
> (3) is similar to the way values are allocated currently, so the only
> addition is a multi-node allocation algorithm to allocate new value
> ranges. That seems to be the best way to go. Any implementation for
> that presumes how the node configuration and inter-node transport
> works, which we would like to keep open for use by various external
> tools.

So you're talking about allocating a block of values for each node?
Seems straightforwards.  That does mean that there needs to be a
"master" node in charge of the allocations, though, yes?  How would this
be tooled/managed?

I'd also love to hear from the PostgresXC folks on whether this solution
works for them.  Postgres-R too.  If it works for all three of those
tools, it's liable to work for any potential new tool.

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