Re: Slony-I for circular replication

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:35:31 -0600
"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:15:21AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > I had to do multi-master replication for a major project and we wound
> > up writing our own replication system. The problem is that this sort of
> > thing really has to be based on your own business rules. There is no
> > way to make it generic. At least, that was the conclusion we came to.
>
> Maybe true, but certainly a lot of the framework should be generic, no?

Possibly. Unfortunately I did the work under NDA. I should check and
see how much I can talk about. I may at least be able to present a
paper discussing the basic ideas. Hmm. Maybe for the Toronto
conference?

> There's *a lot* of people who ask about multi-master replication.

Yah, we were one of them. :-)

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