Re: WAL to RAW devices ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alex Vinogradovs
Subject Re: WAL to RAW devices ?
Date
Msg-id 1188607550.6082.66.camel@localhost
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In response to Re: WAL to RAW devices ?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-general
Oh well, I guess I will just use some trigger to invoke a C
function and store the statements in a raw device with some
proprietary format, while the actual inserts don't take place
at all.

In case anyone has more ideas, please let me know.


On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 17:45 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> Alex Vinogradovs wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >
> > I've got a bunch of PosgreSQL servers connected to external storage,
> >  where a single server needs to be serving as WO database dealing with
> > INSERTs only, and bunch of other guys need to obtain a copy of that
> > data for RO serving, without taking resources on WO server.
>
> You can't do that with PostgreSQL without replication. Unless you are
> willing to have outages with your RO servers to apply the logs.
>
> Further you are considering the wrong logs. It is not the WAL logs, but
> the archive logs that you need.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>


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