Re: Feature Request for 7.5

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:41:40PM +0700, Chris Travers wrote:
>
> > It strikes me that, for many sorts of databases, multimaster synchronous
> > replication is not the best solution for the reasons that Scott, Jan, et.
> > al. have raised. I am wondering how commercial RDBMS's get arround this
> > problem?
>
> Say, have you looked at the approach taken by postgres-r? It's supposed
> to solve these problems, and unless I've missed something they are in
> need of some manpower to port it to recent releases.
>
> I don't know the URL. It's on gborg somewhere though.
>

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php

The way I under stand the fix is to have a two stage commit...
This is from previous threads mind you.

So its

Client -> Server <Commit Transaction>
Server -> Other Servers <Pre Commit>
Other Servers -> Server <Ready to Commit>
<Server Waits for all other servers to respond>
Server -> Other Servers <Commit>
Server -> Client <Commit Success or Not>

Each query that makes a change needs to tell all other servers and
get a responce.

Oh yes and you need point in time backup to bring new servers up
to date and crashed ones too.

I really need point in time backup at the very least and would
love to see all these features. These features are growing to beyond
urgent now.... Less talk more action.

Peter Childs