Re: Conditional row grained replication with DBMirror

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Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
>
> 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
>
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