Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 07:51, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:17:00 -0600 Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net> wrote:
> > Plus, there are
> > currently no replication systems for postgresql that are all things to
> > all people,
>
> is this even possible?
>
> (no, don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question.)
>
> i can make a case that there are at least 3 distinctly different types
> of replication needed depending on the application.
>
> 1) synchronous
>
> 2) single master, multiple slave asynchronous
> (aka slony)
>
> 3) multi-master async w/conflict resolution
> (like the now woefully out of date pg-replicator)
>
> the work on slony is appreciated, but i need 3), and it
> looks like i'm going to have to do it myself. sigh.
>

On the upside, you have already been given pg-replicator as a starting
point, all you need to do is being it up to speed.

Robert Treat
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