Re: replication followup

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Justin Banks wrote:

> Hello -
> As a followup to my mail about replication yesterday, I've
> realized that I can make replication bi-directional, with each
> (non-replicant master initiated) connection to a backend it's own
> master with respect to that connection and all data modifications made
> within it. In order to do that, though, I need to add items to the
> structs Port (be) and PGconn (fe). After I do that, the asynch stuff
> would just fall into place, and the performance should impove. My
> question is whether there is anything I should be really careful of
> when modifying these structs? I'm not sure if there is code that uses
> byte offsets or something into these structs, so any warnings would be
> much appreciated.
>
> On a related note, does anyone know what the status of ER's
> replication is?

It was comitted to the source tree, under contrib, before Xmas, and will
be in the beta2 distribution schedualed for this weekend ...