Re: Replication documentation addition - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Replication documentation addition
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Msg-id 20061024235045.GX26892@nasby.net
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In response to Replication documentation addition  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:39:34PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Query Broadcast Replication
> ---------------------------
>
> This involves sending write queries to multiple servers.  Read-only
> queries can be sent to a single server because there is no need for all
> servers to process it.   This can be complex to setup because functions
> like random() and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP will have different values on
> different servers, and sequences should be consistent across servers.
> Pgpool implements this type of replication.

Isn't there another active project that does this besides pgpool?

It's probably also worth mentioning the commercial replication schemes
that are out there.
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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