On Sep 21, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes: you can do 'bucardo reload_config' for that purpose (config changes > only), and a 'bucardo reload' to pick up new syncs and the like. I don't > think we have a way yet to smoothly add new syncs: right now reload > basically causes the MCP to stop all existing syncs, forget everything > it knows, reload from the database, and start again. That’s better than nothing. I assume that the reload either finishes those syncs before restarting or fires them up again after restarting, yes? > You can use Bucardo's preferred terms "source" and "target". We just keep > master and slave around for backwards compatibility. :) “Multi-source replication.” Not sure about that term. Maybe… > Yes, Bucardo can handle things like that: each sync is completely distinct, > and can have any combination of databases as needed. As of about a week ago, > you can even replicate within the same database (especially useful with > the customname feature!) Yeah, this is awesome. > *shrug* It's a little more overhead, but doable. We should probably concoct > a standard recipe on the wiki for doing so (e.g. to handle the non-PK > tables). +1 >> Sounds important. > > It is, but it's also more edgy of an edge case that it first appears. Okay. >> These? >> >> * Fix quoting bug reported by Sean M. Pappalardo >> * Fix need for password argument when using md5 >> * Get Drizzle tests verified as working >> * Get bucardo-report working again >> * Note 8.2 minimum requirement somewhere (probably from COPY (select)) >> * Get some solid tests for the makedelta system >> * Fix bug with checking wrong tables in databases on startup reported to list >> >> Where will I find context for these? They appear to be more notes to >> yourself. >> Which I can appreciate, but not be much help with. :-) > > I will try to flush those out a little bit. I should point out that the > 8.2 requirement is no longer true: I successfully tested a 8.1 target > yesterday. But we do want to note the minimum source database and > target databases. 8.1 seems more than reasonable, frankly. Please let me know when you've added some context to these items. I can try to take a look at some of them this week and next. > Thanks for the help offer! I'm wary of yet another aspect of Bucardo project > management, as I have very little time to throw at it some weeks. Maybe > yourself or David Christensen could spearhead that effort? I'd be happy to > answer quick questions on IRC to help out. Anything would be good; do you prefer it be somewhere else? The TODO list is useful, but lacks necessary context, IMO. Oh, you have a Bugzilla, I see. http://bucardo.org/bugzilla/ Should we just use that? Best, David _______________________________________________ Bucardo-general mailing list [email protected] https://mail.endcrypt.com/mailman/listinfo/bucardo-general
