Re: Request for replication advice

From: Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)007Marketing(dot)com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Request for replication advice
Date: 2006-11-11 02:35:54
Message-ID: 4555370A.5030506@007Marketing.com
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Brendan Jurd wrote:

> Why *does* Slony require a bi-directional connection to the
> subscriber? The data is travelling in one direction only ... what
> needs to come back the other way?

So the slave can say "yes I got that data you can remove it from my TODO
list" ?

> This seems to be getting rather messy. I wonder if I might not be
> better off just writing AFTER triggers on all the tables I'm
> interested in, which replicate the query to the slave system with
> psql. It would probably be relatively labour intensive, and increase
> the burden of administering the schema, but it would also be a much
> more direct and simple approach.
>

That sounds like contrib/dbmirror

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