Re: Replication Ideas

On 26 Aug 2003 at 3:01, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
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> > Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com> writes:
> > > Yes I have. Postgres-r is not a high-availability solution which is
> > > capable of transparent failover,
> >
> > What makes you say that? My understanding is it's supposed to survive
> > loss of individual servers.
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> How does it play 'catch up' went a server comes back online?

<dumb idea>
PITR + archive logs daemon? Chances of a node and an archive log daemon going
down simalrenously are pretty low. If archive log daemon works on another
machin, the MTBF should be pretty acceptable..
</dumb idea>

Bye
Shridhar

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