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Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@lklug.pdn.ac.lk> writes:
> I am trying to add some replication features to postgres (yes, I have
> already looked at ongoing work), in a peer to peer manner.
Did you look at the research behind Postgres-R, and the pgreplication
stuff?
> - When a frontend process sends a read query, each backend process
> does that from its own data area.
Surely that's not correct -- a SELECT can be handled by *any one*
node, not each and every one, right?
> - There are two types of write queries. Postmasters use seperate
> communication channels for each. One is the sequencial channel which
> carries writes whose order is important, and the non-sequencial
> channel carries write queries whose order is not important.
How do you distinguish between these?
Cheers,
Neil
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