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From: Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Distributed Database Web Site
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:26:47 +0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Hi,

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> For instance, if we had a read-only database on a mirror site, 
> replicated from the main database using something like Slony ... how 
> hard would it be t have 'write operations' sent to the main web site to 
> happen, with all read operations being local?

What's the point? You can't realistically expect permanent high-speed 
connectivity between master and slaves, thus replication will be *extremely* 
asynchronous.

The only obviuos benefit I see is reduced traffic.

> ie. posting news events would happen at http://www.postgresql.org, but 
> reading news events would be @ http://www.xx.postgresql.org, but both 
> could/would be dynamic?

It works this way even now.

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