On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:38 PM, jonathan ferguson <j...@hoozinga.com> wrote: > hi. > > On Mar 20, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Jaime Casanova wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Jaime Casanova <ja...@2ndquadrant.com> >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John P Weatherman >>> <jweatherma...@alumni.wfu.edu> wrote: >>>> Has anyone run into this already and have an idea for a work around? I >>>> am primarily an Oracle guy and in that environment I would set up a >>>> second DB with database links to the hot standby, >>> >>> you can use the contrib module dblink for this: >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/dblink.html >> >> obviously you need to install the module libraries in both the master >> and the slave and the sql functions that create objects in master only > > Perhaps I'm in the clueless n00b category, here, but how does: > > "dblink [] a module which supports connections to other PostgreSQL databases > from within a database session." >
your question had 2 parts... > 1) real time data replication (which the hot standby does) and for this one hot standby is almost that. ok, you have a little delay but is that delay that bad that you can't use it? if it is, 9.1 will ship with synchronous replication > 2) the ability to create temporary tables as part of their reporting jobs > (which is expressly prohibited in a hot standby. AFAIU, the links you say you create in Oracle are for this... no? that's why i suggest using dblink... if i misunderstood how you use the database links, please explain... -- Jaime Casanova www.2ndQuadrant.com Professional PostgreSQL: Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
