Slony-I for circular replication - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bozhidar Mihaylov
Subject Slony-I for circular replication
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Msg-id 82148c870603300213n5a75640ay425b1ac709aa801@mail.gmail.com
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Hi All;
 
Can Slony-I be used for circular replication (A <replicates> B <replicates> A)
or there is some kind of problem with locking or anything else?
If I avoid insert conflicts will the following scenario succeed for the updates :
   A: X.balance-= 5
   B: X.balance-= 3
   A receives the update from B (X.balance -= 3)
   B receives the update from A (X.balance -= 5)
or it will lead to deadlock ?
Nodes A and B will reside at different geografical locations.
I'll use only node A to service both locations in the most time and B for redundancy.
But the case of broken connection between node A and B could lead to scenarios
like latter because then A and B will service their own location. Could such a scenarios
be detected and logged ?
What happen in case of a conflict (dublicated primary key/update deleted) ?
Could the performed action be managed ?
 
Regards,
Bozhidar Mihaylov

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