Re: Conditional row grained replication with DBMirror

Hi,

any news on applying the patches to dbmirror??

Thanx.

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> Sure, send the patches to the patches list and we will get them applied.
> I am not sure if I can get them into 7.4. It depends if the dbmirror
> author can review them.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> >
> >
> > I made a modification on DBMirror.pl,
> > an addition in the slavedatabase.conf file,
> > and added another replication table "specialtables".
> >
> > The goal was to have a way of controlling
> > when a row of table (if the table is present in specialtables),
> > will be mirrored to the remote slave.
> >
> > Lets assume, we have a bank's central IT DEPT master DB
> > and some branches abroad.
> >
> > Rows in some tables (e.g. personel, branches, statistics on transactions,
> > etc...)
> > have no reason to be replicated to all sites, but only
> > those sites that these rows refer to:
> >
> > E.G.
> > we have
> > test=# \d personel
> > Table "public.personel"
> > Column | Type | Modifiers
> > ---------------+------------------------+-----------
> > id | integer | not null
> > name | character varying(20) |
> > branchid | integer |
> > test=#
> >
> > or
> > test=# \d branch
> > Table "public.personel"
> > Column | Type | Modifiers
> > ---------------+------------------------+-----------
> > id | integer | not null
> > country | character varying(20) |
> > address | text |
> > test=#
> >
> > And we require that insert, updates on table branch with id = 1
> > go only to remote site (the ip of) branch 1,
> > and that inserts,updates on personel with branchid = 2,
> > in the same fashion, go only to (the ip of) branch 2.
> >
> > I retain the table specialtables
> > test=# \d specialtables
> > Table "public.specialtables"
> > Column | Type | Modifiers
> > ---------------+------------------------+-----------
> > tblname | character varying(100) | not null
> > siteidkeyname | character varying(20) |
> > Indexes: specialtables_pkey primary key btree (tblname)
> >
> > test=#
> >
> > in which for each conditional table, the corresponding
> > column name (the value of siteidkeyname) is given
> > which indicates against which column in the PendingData.Data
> > column is to be examined for equality against the site id.
> >
> > The site id for each slave is defined in an additional field
> > in slaveInfo struct in slavedatabase.conf.
> >
> > Please tell me if i should send the patches
> > to DBMirror.pl, MirrorSetup.sql, and slavedatabase.conf.
> >
> > --
> > ==================================================================
> > Achilleus Mantzios
> > S/W Engineer
> > IT dept
> > Dynacom Tankers Mngmt
> > Nikis 4, Glyfada
> > Athens 16610
> > Greece
> > tel: +30-210-8981112
> > fax: +30-210-8981877
> > email: achill at matrix dot gatewaynet dot com
> > mantzios at softlab dot ece dot ntua dot gr
> >
> >
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Achilleus Mantzios
S/W Engineer
IT dept
Dynacom Tankers Mngmt
Nikis 4, Glyfada
Athens 16610
Greece
tel: +30-210-8981112
fax: +30-210-8981877
email: achill at matrix dot gatewaynet dot com
mantzios at softlab dot ece dot ntua dot gr