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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove replicaiton FAQ item.
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:40:50 -0700
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Jeff Davis wrote:
> Should the text include a mention of synchronous vs. asynchronous? Or
> does master-master imply synchronous?
It shouldn't. It is possible to have synchronous replication without it
being master<->master.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Davis
>
> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 08:01 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>>Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Robert Treat wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Sunday 14 November 2004 16:33, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Log Message:
>>>>>-----------
>>>>>Remove replicaiton FAQ item.
>>>>>
>>>>>Modified Files:
>>>>>--------------
>>>>> pgsql/doc:
>>>>> FAQ (r1.269 -> r1.270)
>>>>>
>>>>>(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/FAQ.diff?r1=1.269&r2=
>>>>>1.270) pgsql/doc/src/FAQ:
>>>>> FAQ.html (r1.227 -> r1.228)
>>>>>
>>>>>(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html.diff
>>>>>?r1=1.227&r2=1.228)
>>>>
>>>>While the answer may have been a little dated, this still seems to be an FAQ.
>>>>Was there a discussion on removing this? If so I'll go read that, but ISTM
>>>>this question should remain.
>>>
>>>agreed, this definitly does fall under a "Very FAQ" kinda thing ...
>>>pointers to the various methods that are currently in use, at a minimum,
>>>would be good ...
>>
>>Yep, big mistake my removing the replication FAQ item. I have re-added a
>>new one:
>>
>> 4.21) What replication solutions are available?
>>
>> Though "replication" is a single term, there are two major replication
>> technologies. Multi-master replication allows read/write queries to be
>> sent to multiple replicated computers. Using this capability has a
>> serious performance impact. Pgcluster is the most popular such solution
>> available for PostgreSQL. Master-slave replication allows a single
>> master to receive read/write queries, with slaves able to accept only
>> read/SELECT queries. The most popular master-slave PostgreSQL
>> replication solution is Slony. There are also commercial and
>> hardware-based replication solutions available.
>>
>
>
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