Re: Slony-I for circular replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Subject Re: Slony-I for circular replication
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Msg-id 20060331111827.2dacf699.darcy@druid.net
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In response to Re: Slony-I for circular replication  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:35:31 -0600
"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:15:21AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > I had to do multi-master replication for a major project and we wound
> > up writing our own replication system.  The problem is that this sort of
> > thing really has to be based on your own business rules.  There is no
> > way to make it generic.  At least, that was the conclusion we came to.
> 
> Maybe true, but certainly a lot of the framework should be generic, no?

Possibly.  Unfortunately I did the work under NDA.  I should check and
see how much I can talk about.  I may at least be able to present a
paper discussing the basic ideas.  Hmm.  Maybe for the Toronto
conference?

> There's *a lot* of people who ask about multi-master replication.

Yah, we were one of them.  :-)

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