Re: Data Replication

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Rutherdale, Will" <Rutherw(at)cisco(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Data Replication
Date: 2008-12-10 23:42:25
Message-ID: 1228952545.19761.1.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:34 -0500, Rutherdale, Will wrote:
> Thanks very much, Steve.
>
> The main (but not only) type of data replication activity I'm interested
> in right now would be the warm standby. Thus it appears from the
> documents you showed me that log shipping is one solution currently
> available in PostgreSQL. I would want to make this work between
> geographically separated machines that have TCP/IP connectivity between
> them.
>
> From what I understand from the documents so far, I can set up log
> shipping using pgsql without any external packages. There also seems to
> be support for periodic backups from the primary to the warm standby.

You can. There is a BSD open source project here:

http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools

That will help you with your warm standby needs quite a bit.

Joshua D. Drake

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