X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF7B9FA5BF for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:18:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45873-04 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:17:51 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616369FA5B5 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:17:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=phlogiston.dydns.org) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0IFa-0003it-7F for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:26:06 -0400 Received: by phlogiston.dydns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6FDD94051; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:17:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:17:40 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: MS-SQL<->Postgres sync Message-ID: <20060711131740.GA7723@phlogiston.dyndns.org> References: <20060710162520.GA4590@phlogiston.dyndns.org> <1152556251.6540.14.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1152556251.6540.14.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200607/178 X-Sequence-Number: 25752 On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:30:51PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > (which means you have to deal with failures in one database and not > > another). Is the idea that this is multi-master? > > I wonder if it would be possible to write a set of triggers for MSSQL > that would allow you to run slony daemons that connected to it and a > postgresql server and did replication. Just mad scientisting for a > second. Well, yes, but that's why I asked whether it's multimaster. Because if so, it'll be at least tricky to do under Slony I. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca Information security isn't a technological problem. It's an economics problem. --Bruce Schneier