Re: mirroring databases

From: "Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall(at)westcountrypublications(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: 'April L' <april(at)i-netco(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: mirroring databases
Date: 2002-07-18 12:36:49
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Is rserv suitable for what you want?
I believe that provides single master async replication (not 100% sure as I
havn't used it).
- Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: April L [mailto:april(at)i-netco(dot)com]
> Sent: 17 July 2002 18:30
> To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] mirroring databases
>
>
> Thank you for that suggestion.
>
> What is the general method for replacing changed records and
> adding new
> records, between remote locations? Assume a one-way sync, ie a mirror.
> Records will only be added or changed at one location.
>
> Thank you,
>
> - April
>
>
> At 11:52 AM 7/17/2002 -0500, D. Duccini wrote:
> >
> >put a trigger on the table so that it updates a
> date/timestamp on updates,
> >like a "lastModified" column
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, April L wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone done, or know of utilities for, remote location
> "near real time
> >> mirroring" of postgres databases?
> >>
> >> An update every 15 minutes or so would work for this
> purpose. However, the
> >> total number of records is in the millions, and the number
> of changed or
> >> new records per day could be thousands.
> >>
> >> To avoid transferring all records, I'm imagining a flag column that
> >> indicates if a new or changed record has been transferred
> to the mirror
> yet.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions...?
> >>
> >> - April
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