Re: Replicating databases

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:49:33PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> 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.

How were you going about it such that it would matter if it was in a
local data center or not?
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