> Am Samstag, 27. Januar 2001 00:20 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > > Have you looked at the replication code that is in contrib?
> >
> > Yes, your description sounds just like it.
>
> Hmm, which of the two? The trigger mechanism?
The triggers.
>
> In the meantime, a third solution came to my mind:
>
> In case somebody has to take a database with him on a laptop, it is hard to
> do replication and avoid conflicts. I once saw an insurance application,
> based on FoxPro, where the insurance agents could select the data of the
> customers he wanted to visit and and create a so called child database, which
> had exactly he same tables as the "mother" and exactly those rows with data
> related to the selected customers. Those rows where the marked as readonly in
> the mother database, so that only the data in the child db could be changed.
> Later, the changes in th child db was reintegrated into the mother db and the
> child was deleted.
Yes, that is a data partitioning feature of replication.
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