Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-09-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
logging of the commit is done after the WAL operation, it must be assured that WAL replay during crash recovery also causes replication log journal to be recovered or repeated. In short, the replication log must be covered by the same redo mechanism the crash recovery system uses. This I will

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-09-25 Thread Jan Wieck
On 8/12/2004 12:02 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: To make a transaction durable, the changes first have to be recorded in PostgreSQL's crash recovery WAL. Only after that data is flushed to the disk it can be assumed that the transaction will be redone in the case of an immediately following crash.

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-15 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:02:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Now erServer did work for them, but it required significant amounts of > tuning and constant babysitting by the DBA. (If Andrew Sullivan is > paying attention to this thread, he can offer lots of gory details.) > I can also personally tes

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-12 Thread Liam Lesboch
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Replication options? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:02:34 -0700 > As far as I know (Joshua please clearify here) Mammoth Replicator writes its own, binary journal containing the changes that need to be applied to the replica. Yes that is correct. On a first look

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> As far as I know (Joshua please clearify here) Mammoth Replicator writes its own, binary journal containing the changes that need to be applied to the replica. Yes that is correct. On a first look inserting into database tables might look more expensive. But there are some fine details that

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
I'll try this again, since it doesn't seem to have made it to the list. On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:02:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Now erServer did work for them, but it required significant amounts of > tuning and constant babysitting by the DBA. (If Andrew Sullivan is > paying attention to th

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-11 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
On Aug 11, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Eckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That probably won't impress your bosses. If you need a track record, then erServer might be what you need. erServer is a commercially produced product that was (is still?) used by Afilias, the provider of regi

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-11 Thread Liam Lesboch
From: Jeff Eckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Liam Lesboch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Replication options? Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:38:34 -0700 (PDT) --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-11 Thread Liam Lesboch
From: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Liam Lesboch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Replication options? Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:54:28 +0200 Liam Lesboch wrote: > Thes slashdots post today about the beta releases of 8.0 caught t

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-11 Thread Liam Lesboch
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeff Eckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Liam Lesboch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Replication options? Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:38:54 -0700 Granted...

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Granted... Liam's bosses want something with a history of successful use in a serious production situation, and erServer at least has that. Slony has been around for too short a time to make that claim, yet. There is also Mammoth Replicator which is an integrated replication approach that does n

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Liam Lesboch wrote: > Thes slashdots post today about the beta releases of 8.0 caught the > attention of my boss and I. Many comments about the replicator issue > and saw many posts about Slony-I in particular. Maybe this is the > only viable option in PostgreSQL? There are others that cost money >

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-11 Thread Jeff Eckermann
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Eckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That probably won't impress your bosses. If you > need > > a track record, then erServer might be what you > need. > > erServer is a commercially produced product that > was > > (is still?) used by Afilias,

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-11 Thread Vivek Khera
> "TL" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> serious testing; very large databases and lots of >> traffic. >> Note that Afilias paid for the development of Slony-I; TL> ... because they were quite unhappy with erServer ... The major point Jan brings up when you talk about this is that

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:53, Liam Lesboch wrote: > Thes slashdots post today about the beta releases of 8.0 caught the > attention of my boss and I. Many comments about the replicator issue and saw > many posts about Slony-I in particular. Maybe this is the only viable option > in PostgreSQL? Th

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-10 Thread Liam Lesboch
n the magazines, my bosses uncomfort with PostgreSQL will not be remedied with just project maintainers word of mouth. Liam From: Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Liam Lesboch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Replication options? Date: Tue, 10

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Most people are using Sloney for master/slave replication. You can search for it easily. --- Liam Lesboch wrote: > Greetings, > > Yesterday theres was a brief discuissions about replications software for > PostgreSQL. My

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-10 Thread Liam Lesboch
not be remedied with just project maintainers word of mouth. Liam From: Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Liam Lesboch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Replication options? Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:12:39 -0400 (EDT) Most people are using Sloney for

[GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-09 Thread Liam Lesboch
Hello, Investigating many options of pgsql replication softwares. Theres are two thats come up in discussions earliers today which are Mamoth Replicator and Slony-I. Is there anybodies who has reviewed them and or compared them in corporate environment? My companys is moving from Microsoft Seque

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options

2004-02-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:58:28PM -, Simon Windsor wrote: > for MASTER-MASTER None. Postgres-R is intended to offer it, but it requires work still. > and MASTER-SLAVE(Multiple) replication. All the rest, except for contrib/rserv, which does only one slave. I have used the erserver on

[GENERAL] Replication options

2004-02-20 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi   I am fairly news to Postgres, but have spent many years using Oracle (15) and MySQL(5).   Whilst I find Postgres very easy to ‘pickup’, the number of replication options are puzzling.   There are a number of replication options available to Postgres. Can anyone on this list advis

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options

2004-02-19 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
On Feb 19, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Simon Windsor wrote: Hi   I am used to using Oracle (15 years) and MySQL(5 years), but I am planning to move an existing application from MySQL to Postgres. The reasons are very simple,   • New requirements means we need views, or a significant re-write • Bett

[GENERAL] Replication options

2004-02-19 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi   I am used to using Oracle (15 years) and MySQL(5 years), but I am planning to move an existing application from MySQL to Postgres. The reasons are very simple,   New requirements means we need views, or a significant re-write Better query/index performance essential.

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options in Postgres

2000-07-31 Thread Ian Turner
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Re: [GENERAL] Replication options in Postgres

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Bitmead
I guess if you don't do deletes then something like selecting all the records with an oid greater than the last replication cycle would find the most recent additions. Erich wrote: > > I am setting up a system that processes transactions, and it needs to > be highly reliable. Once a transact

[GENERAL] Replication options in Postgres

2000-07-31 Thread Erich
I am setting up a system that processes transactions, and it needs to be highly reliable. Once a transaction happens, it can never be lost. This means that there needs to be real-time off-site replication of data. I'm wondering what's the best way to do this. One thing that might simplify thi