Re: Replicating databases

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:23:34PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > It seems kludgey this way, though. What you really need is
> > multimaster with conflict resolution, because you can depend on your
>
> Isn't Slony2 supposed to do just that?

Well, to the extent that slony 2 ever is going to do anything, our
original aim was multimaster replication in a single data centre.
Some folks have been working on various approaches that seem to be
bearing real bitter fruit, though, and I don't know how hopeful I am
these days for a general-purpose tool that will do that.

It's certainly a laudable goal, though, and if people want to work on
such a target, I'd sure like to know about it.

A

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