Re: Constant WAL replay

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, eg(at)cybertec(dot)at
Subject: Re: Constant WAL replay
Date: 2005-04-24 18:01:28
Message-ID: 426BDEF8.6000709@commandprompt.com
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:10:34AM +0200, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
>
>
>>The idea: We are looking for a way to implement a synchronous
>>single-master / multiple slaves systems.
>>Meanwhile we are able to serialize / deserialize WAL records and send
>>them to a group communication system which transports those records to
>>the slave database.
>>This is not hard to do.
>
>
> In fact, I believe Command Prompt's Mammoth Replicator does exactly
> this.

Very close. We don't use the WAL (yet, slated for probably 8.1) but we
do use a transaction log shipping method. So the implementation is
almost the same.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.

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