Re: Replication

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 25 juin 09 à 11:26, Jasen Betts a écrit :
>> On 2009-06-23, Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone actually have that (any node
>>> can go down and the others still replicate amongst themselves?)
>>
>> you are describing usenet. (it was not designed for relational database
>> replication but it does have that feature)
>
> http://postgres-r.org/about/about
>
> Reliability, Availability and Scalability
> Mirroring the data on multiple nodes enhances reliability of the
> database system. As Postgres-R is using a group communication system
> it is easily possible to add or remove nodes on the running system.
> Crashing nodes are automatically detected and removed, thus do not
> affect the operating of the database system. This facilitates
> administration tasks and ensures greater availability and scalability
> of the database system.
>
> Regards,
> --dim
I think some disclosure is in order about postgres-r:

"Please note that this is *experimental* software. primarily released
for review by developers familiar with Postgres."

Looks interesting though...

Regards,
Gerry