AW: postgres 7.2 features.

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Philip Warner'" <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: AW: postgres 7.2 features.
Date: 2000-07-11 13:21:19
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963367FF0@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> At 11:27 11/07/00 +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
> >
> >> It was mentioned here that triggers could be used for
> async replication,
> >> as well as WAL.
> >
> >Same story. Major inefficency. Replication is tough enough without
> >mucking
> >around with triggers. Once the trigger executes you've got to go and
> >store
> >the data in the database again anyway. Then figure out when to delete
> >it.
> >
>
> The WAL *should* be the most efficient technique for
> replication (this said
> without actually having seen it ;-}).

That depends on how much you need replicated. If you replicate all or most
tables WAL will be very good, if you only need a few tables it wont.

Andreas

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