Re: One store, two machines?

Yeah, its called RAID ;)

seriously, consider using a Mylex external controller that has twin SCSI
bus interfaces on it that allows for multiple hosts

the other option would be to write a trigger mechanism implemented in the
database to do the writes

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Michael R. Jinks wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> We would like to implement a PostgreSQL database in such a way that the data
> are housed on disk volumes which are redundant across two Solaris (or maybe
> Linux) hosts.  Both hosts must have write access to the store -- a master
> system/backup system scheme is not acceptable for us; was also want this to
> be a load balancing setup.
>
> Does Postgres have a facility for keeping data stores on two hosts in sync?
>
> TIA,
> -m
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