Re: Thoughts on the mirroring system etc

As I mentioned before I'd be happy to donate an apache module
(commercial) that when combined with mod rewrite would redirect
www.postgresql.org to www.<country_code>.postgresql.org. It takes very
little overhead and would be very effictive for the mirroring.

Gavin

Robert Treat wrote:

>On Thursday 20 January 2005 07:47, Dave Page wrote:
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>>The major problem with wwwmaster is that we need multimaster replication
>>to handle it properly, without having a single point of failure. Slony 1
>>will not resolve that basic issue.
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>I wonder if daffodil replicator is worth looking into. I don't think it is a
>true multi-master system, but it claims to do bi-directional replicating and
>data-synchronization between databases, so it might do what we need. I'm
>sure if we told them we were thinking of using it for the pg website they
>would be willing to help.
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>As an aside, I'm not convinced that we have to go the db replication route.
>AFAIK the php website doesn't use any db replication, instead relying on one
>central server for submitting comments and some apache/php magic to do
>automagic mirror redirection. I don't see any reason we can't use that
>scheme.
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