Re: Synchronous Log Shipping Replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Synchronous Log Shipping Replication
Date
Msg-id 1221237915.3913.1110.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Synchronous Log Shipping Replication  (Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>)
Responses Re: Synchronous Log Shipping Replication  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:11 +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote:

> Why not have a design where the slave is in control for it's own data ?
> I mean the slave...

The slave only exists because it is a copy of the master. If you try to
"startup" a slave without first having taken a copy, how would you
bootstrap the slave? With what? To what? It sounds cool, but its not
practical.

I posted a workable suggestion today on another subthread.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: David Fetter
Date:
Subject: Re: Better auth errors from libpq
Next
From: Andrew Chernow
Date:
Subject: Re: Better auth errors from libpq