Re: Pg/CyberCluster test results

From: RW <postgres(at)tauceti(dot)net>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Pg/CyberCluster test results
Date: 2008-08-22 14:06:15
Message-ID: 48AEC7D7.4020501@tauceti.net
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Maybe some people haven't read this site here:

http://www.postgresqldocs.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_and_Connection_Pooling

It gives a nice overview. Another interesting project which isn't
production ready yet is Postgres-R (http://www.postgres-r.org/)

Robert

RW wrote:
> I hoped that it would be easier to get the nodes back in sync
> but it seems that all Postgres Multi-Master solutions are not
> reliable at the moment. I've planed to test CyberCluster
> this weekend but I already suspected that this rsync solutions
> have some shortcomings. Sniff...
>
> It seems that we have to wait for PGCluster-II which isn't a
> "shared nothing" solution. Instead all files are on a shared
> medium like SAN or iSCSI and all instances uses this medium
> (similar to Oracle).
>
> Robert
>
> CG wrote:
>> I've been testing Cybercluster (which is a modified PgCluster) ... I
>> have two back-end databases, one load balancer, and one replicator.
>> I've been testing failover and rebuilding a degraded cluster, and I'm
>> finidng that it is REALLY easy for the two back-ends to get out of
>> sync with each other. This is very disturbing. I was wondering if
>> anyone has experience with solving this problem.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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