Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Proposal for a cascaded master-slave replication system

2003-11-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:46:11PM -0500, James Robinson wrote: Speaking from a non-profit whose enterprise data sits inside postgres, we would be willing to invest a few thousand dollars into the pot of synchronous multi-master replication. Postgres-r sounded absolutely marvelous to us

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Proposal for a cascaded master-slave replication system

2003-11-13 Thread James Robinson
Speaking from a non-profit whose enterprise data sits inside postgres, we would be willing to invest a few thousand dollars into the pot of synchronous multi-master replication. Postgres-r sounded absolutely marvelous to us back in the day that it was rumored to be one of the possible

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Proposal for a cascaded master-slave replication system

2003-11-11 Thread Joe Conway
Jan Wieck wrote: http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1.html Very interesting read. Nice work! We want to build this system as a community project. The plan was from the beginning to release the product under the BSD license. And we think it is best to start it as such and to ask for

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Proposal for a cascaded master-slave replication system

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
On Nov 11, 2003, at 12:11 PM, Joe Conway wrote: Jan Wieck wrote: http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1.html Very interesting read. Nice work! Ditto. I'll read it a bit closer later, but after a quick read it seems quite complete and well thought out. I especially like that sequences

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Proposal for a cascaded master-slave replication system

2003-11-11 Thread Jan Wieck
Joe Conway wrote: Jan Wieck wrote: http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1.html Very interesting read. Nice work! We want to build this system as a community project. The plan was from the beginning to release the product under the BSD license. And we think it is best to start it as such

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Proposal for a cascaded master-slave replication system

2003-11-11 Thread Joe Conway
Jan Wieck wrote: If you mean to configure the system to replicate rows to different destinations (slaves) based on arbitrary qualifications, no. I had thought about it, but it does not really fit into the datacenter and failover picture, so it is not required to meet the goals and adds