Re: [Pgreplication-general] Master/Slave is in town!

This is certainly a good news !
Congratulations to you ( or to your team ) !!
I would like to personally say thank you for the great job !

Warmest regards
Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mabrouk CHOUK" <mchouk(at)cs(dot)mcgill(dot)ca>
To: <pgreplication-general(at)gborg(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:09 PM
Subject: [Pgreplication-general] Master/Slave is in town!

> Hello All,
>
> I would like to announce that the Master/Slave approach to postgres is
> almost finished. I have presently a working system. I am presently testing
> the system and adding some "syntactic suger", i.e. making it nice and
> sweet.
>
> I am testing the new system on two solaris machines (one Master and one
> Slave). I will provide the new system for the general community for
> testing on a hopefully much larger cluster as soon as I wrap it up and
> have it approved by Dr. Bettina Kemme.
>
> There are many changes that I integrated into postgres. The main part of
> these changes are in the replication module, i.e. the replication manager
> process, the group communication process and the remote backends. This
> e-mail will be quite large if I have to describe all the changes. However,
> I have a suggestion: the replicationManager.c file have been dramatically
> reduced and simplified, to the point that I suggest renaming the new file
> to something like "MasterSlaveRMgr.c" or something alike. The reasons
> behind this is avoid confusion with the old update-everywhere file, and to
> make easier for developers to follow the changes to the system, and to
> make improvements to it if need be.
>
> The general direction of my near-future work will be the following:
>
> 1. failure over integration of both the Mater and any slave: the system
> has to be robust enough to handle failure of any host.
>
> 2. user transparent recovery mechanisms for both the Master and any Slave.
>
> I will be posting design suggestions on how I intend to pursue these two
> goals. As usual, any comments/suggestions that might help me design a
> better algorithm are very welcome.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mabrouk
>
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