Re: Mirror databases

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Leandro Fanzone wrote:

> I have a collection of databases that are meant to be equal in an array
> of PCs. Specifically, it is about POS stations: each POS has exactly the
> same tables of articles, cashiers, etc. They are meant to work in a
> standalone fashion, so I can't afford the idea of all clients and one
> server, and each one has to be client and server at the same time. If
> the network has problems, the whole supermarket must operate in spite of
> that.
> So, if I have one PC that I will call "master", is there any native
> mechanism in Postgre to duplicate automagically those tables to the rest
> of the "slaves"? If I need to update them all, it would be enough to
> update this master and tell the rest to "copy" the database from that
> one. I wouldn't need to worry about the state of each box, and assume
> that Postgre does it all for me, knowing what it needs to update in each
> case.

You are doing what is known as 'replication'.  This is, according to the
PostgreSQL website, something that is still under development.  However,
you should take a look at this page:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php

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