--On Sunday, September 17, 2006 10:04 AM -0700 Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Also, not all of my replicas need the same indexing, so replicating
the configs around would take some care to specify which host does
what.
Indeed. This fact is central to the reason why replicating back-config is
not practical.
Who says it would be a single replicated database for all the replicas?
Since it is just another database configured on the master, different
replicas could replicate their configurations as necessary from different
config backends on the master. It solves a number of problems to have the
capability to do it. One could then update the configurations of multiple
replicas very trivially, particularly if one was, say, running a company
that had different replica configurations depending on locations around the
globe. No need to individually update 10, 50, 100 or whatever number for
each particular location.
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