From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Jyoti Seth <jyotiseth2001@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database synchronization
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:24:11 +0100
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Jyoti Seth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two postgres databases "Db1" and "Db2" on different linux servers.
> "DB1" is my master server and its data updates very frequently.
>
> My application access DB2 database, which in turn requires data from Db1
> database.
OK
> The same can be achieved in either of the following ways:
> 1. I can have the same tables from Db1 in the Db2 database and use some
> replication process to update these tables say using Slony-I. And then our
> application accesses the data from the single database.
Yes
> 2. Or I can use dblink to fetch the data from the master database only.
Yes
also:
3. Write a layer in your application / between the application &
database which routes queries to the correct database.
> My problem is my master database changes frequently and I always require the
> latest information.
Well, if by "latest" you mean you can't have any delay at all you'll
have to use #2 or #3.
However, that could be slow if you need to join a lot of data from DB1
to DB2. Can you provide more details of what each contains?
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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