Re: [HACKERS] snapshot replication with pg_dump

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Silveira
Can you do that if you have functions tied to the table? Also would that be in a transaction? I need to allow seamless usability to the data while I'm doing this snapshot. Not sure the -c option (Clean Drop schema) would work here. I want to only drop a table and not the entire db so that I'm

Re: [HACKERS] snapshot replication with pg_dump

2006-08-21 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:40:22AM -0700, Paul Silveira wrote: > > Yes the needs are simple. I was also thinking about using DBI. The most > important thing to me is that everything is kept in a transaction so that > users can still read the data while I'm snapshotting it at the same time. > If

Re: [HACKERS] snapshot replication with pg_dump

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Silveira
Yes the needs are simple. I was also thinking about using DBI. The most important thing to me is that everything is kept in a transaction so that users can still read the data while I'm snapshotting it at the same time. If my transaction is isolated from all the reads happening, then it shouldn

Re: [HACKERS] snapshot replication with pg_dump

2006-08-11 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Silveira) writes: > Does anyone have any good examples of implementing "snapshot" > replication. I know that PostgreSQL does not have snapshot > replication and that Slony-I is the recomended replication senario > but I've configured it and it seems rather advanced for a sho

[HACKERS] snapshot replication with pg_dump

2006-08-11 Thread Paul Silveira
Hello, Does anyone have any good examples of implementing "snapshot" replication. I know that PostgreSQL does not have snapshot replication and that Slony-I is the recomended replication senario but I've configured it and it seems rather advanced for a shop that is implementing PostgreSQL for th