Re: mirroring databases

Thank you for that suggestion.

What is the general method for replacing changed records and adding new
records, between remote locations? Assume a one-way sync, ie a mirror.
Records will only be added or changed at one location.

Thank you,

- April

At 11:52 AM 7/17/2002 -0500, D. Duccini wrote:
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>put a trigger on the table so that it updates a date/timestamp on updates,
>like a "lastModified" column
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>On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, April L wrote:
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>> Has anyone done, or know of utilities for, remote location "near real time
>> mirroring" of postgres databases?
>>
>> An update every 15 minutes or so would work for this purpose. However, the
>> total number of records is in the millions, and the number of changed or
>> new records per day could be thousands.
>>
>> To avoid transferring all records, I'm imagining a flag column that
>> indicates if a new or changed record has been transferred to the mirror
yet.
>>
>> Any suggestions...?
>>
>> - April
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