Re: Thoughts on the mirroring system etc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla@users.sourceforge.net]
> Sent: 20 January 2005 18:24
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Magnus Hagander; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Thoughts on the mirroring system etc
>
> As an aside, I'm not convinced that we have to go the db
> replication route.
> AFAIK the php website doesn't use any db replication, instead
> relying on one
> central server for submitting comments and some apache/php
> magic to do
> automagic mirror redirection.  I don't see any reason we
> can't use that
> scheme.

Hmm, I have to disagree there - one of their UK mirrors is occasionally
flakey, and I end up tearing my hair out trying to get to the docs. We
used to have a similar situation with the pgwebsite years ago - I'd like
to avoid that happening again.

Daffodil sounds good though - I will try to look at that.

Regardsm, Dave