Re: Constant WAL replay - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Constant WAL replay
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Msg-id 426BDEF8.6000709@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Constant WAL replay  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
Responses Re: Constant WAL replay  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: Constant WAL replay  (Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:10:34AM +0200, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
> 
> 
>>The idea: We are looking for a way to implement a synchronous 
>>single-master / multiple slaves systems.
>>Meanwhile we are able to serialize / deserialize WAL records and send 
>>them to a group communication system which transports those records to 
>>the slave database.
>>This is not hard to do.
> 
> 
> In fact, I believe Command Prompt's Mammoth Replicator does exactly
> this.

Very close. We don't use the WAL (yet, slated for probably 8.1) but we
do use a transaction log shipping method. So the implementation is 
almost the same.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.




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