Re: What about SkyTools? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dmitry Koterov
Subject Re: What about SkyTools?
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Msg-id d7df81620705111238n1ccfb417mdf394e76e2dc0aa4@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: What about SkyTools?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Still looking for a possible (more simple) replacement for Slony in the background.

1. Seems SkyTools does not have an utility to spread DDL changes among all the replicas (like slonik does). So, if I want to ALTER TABLE, I have to run this command manually on each node?

2. The architecture of the system is not clear enough. What daemon should run in what machine? Seems we must have one PgQ daemon on each machine (master and all slaves), but should we have a londiste daemon on each machine too or not? (If yes, we have to care about londiste configs synchronization on all replicas, which is not very handy.)

Seems SkyTools developed for static schemas only, without an ability to modify the schema.
Am I wrong?

On 4/12/07, Robert Treat < xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:08, Dmitry Koterov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Have anybody used SkyTools in production environment?
> What's the impression? In practice - is it now more preferrable than Slony
> or not yet?

Well, skype using them in production...   I think the general consensus of the
postgresql community is that slony is still the preferred choice, but on
number of deployments and general community knowledge, assuming you need
master/slave style replication.  Everything else is still considered fairly
green technology, though that's no reason not to test it in your environment.
IMHO YMMV

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Robert Treat
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