Alexander Staubo wrote:
> On 6/1/07, gonzales@linuxlouis.net <gonzales@linuxlouis.net> wrote:
>> I'm disappointed because SLONY-II has not been released yet to support
>> multi-master replication!
>
> I wouldn't pin all my hopes on a project still under development. (For
> me, personally, add the fact that Slony-I still has not solved
> single-master replication in a way that doesn't burden the
> developer/DBA with lots of unnecessary extra maintenance; I am not
> counting on its developers to fix this issue in Slony-II.)
>
> In the meantime, Cybertec (http://www.postgresql.at/, an Austrian
> company) just announced a commercial synchronous multimaster
> replication product based on 2-phase commit. It's expensive, and I
> can't speak for its maturity, and it may or may not scale as well as
> the projected Slony-II design, but the setup seems dead simple, and
> from the docs I have found it seems to transparently replicate schema
> changes, unlike Slony-I. So that's something.
I could be completely cranked but I believe that product is based on
PgCluster which is horrendously slow.
To be fair, it is still under heavy development and does show promise.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Alexander.
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