Re: Using postgres.log file for replication

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: ioanasoftware(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Cc: "Csaba Nagy" <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using postgres.log file for replication
Date: 2008-11-27 17:34:06
Message-ID: dcc563d10811270934n7166a037t10ebcdd2a1958faa@mail.gmail.com
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If you want the same thing in real time look into pgpool II

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Ioana Danes <ioanasoftware(at)yahoo(dot)ca> wrote:
> I know there are some limitations abut it:
> - copy statements cannot be executed,
> - the use of now() function
> - even database restore scripts I don't want to be replicated
> but these are not a problem for me because I don't use them in the application...
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 11/27/08, Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Using postgres.log file for replication
>> To: ioanasoftware(at)yahoo(dot)ca
>> Cc: "PostgreSQL General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> Received: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 12:24 PM
>> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:20 -0800, Ioana Danes wrote:
>> > I've been wondering if anybody tried to use the
>> postgresql csv log file to replicate sql statements.
>> > I've been looking into it in the past days and
>> after a brief testing it doesn't look bad at all...
>>
>> Try to execute something like:
>>
>> UPDATE some_table SET some_timestamp_field = now();
>>
>> The replica is now different than the master :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Csaba.
>>
>>
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