From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database Synchronization
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:43:17 +0100
Message-ID: <469E3515.4070006@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60fy3ln4ij.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com>
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Chris Browne wrote:
> dev@archonet.com (Richard Huxton) writes:
>>
>> http://www.slony.info/> But it is worth noting one thing about the synchronization...
>
> Slony-I's strategy is pretty simple: One node is considered the
> "master," and the other node is forcibly made to conform to what is on
> the master.
>
> If you want to synchronize back and forth (e.g. - multimaster
> replication of some sort), Slony-I is not suitable...
Except in the case when you can have separate tables for the data. If
you have a london_sales table only updated in London and a paris_sales
table only updated in Paris then you have something inching towards
multi-master.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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