Re: [PATCHES] replication docs: split single vs. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCHES] replication docs: split single vs.
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Msg-id 200611171325.kAHDPlQ29412@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] replication docs: split single vs.  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>)
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > OK.  I am still feeling that data partitioning is like master/slave
> > replication because you have to get that read-only copy to the other
> > server.  If you split things up so data sets resided on only one
> > machine, you are right that would not be replication, but do people do
> > that?  If so, it is almost another solution.
> 
> People do that in cases where there is high write loads ("high" as in
> "not 10+ times less than reads") and just replicating the RO copies
> would be prohibitively expensive in either network, cpu or memory terms.

OK, as Markus suggested, I have moved Data Partitioning down to the
bottom, and mentioned it as only optionally keeping a read-only copy on
each server.  Is this better?

> > > Several single-master systems? C'mon! Pgpool simply implements the most 
> > > simplistic form of multi-master replication. 
> 
> In what way is pgpool multimaster ? last time I looked it did nothing
> but applying DML to several databses. i.e. it is not replication at all,
> or at least it is masterless, unless we think of the pgpool process
> itself as the _single_ master :)

I have remove the mention of "multi-master" from query broadcast.

> 
> > Just because you can access 
> > > the single databases inside the cluster doesn't make it less 
> > > Multi-Master, does it?
> > 
> > OK, changed to "Multi-Master Replication Using Query Broadcasting".
> 
> I think this gives completely wrong picture of what pgpool does.
> 
> How about just "Query Broadcasting" ?
> 

Done.

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