Re: "Hot Backups"

Doug,

> Would an alternative be to log all transactions to a file at the same
> time
> that you're making the call to the db? I was thinking of
> implementing
> that, but do you think it would be faster as a postgres function, or
> perhaps in the native language that's doing the front-end processing?
> I
> would think it would be the latter, and perhaps you could just fork a
> call
> to do just that. In my case I'd do it in perl, since that's what
> we're
> primarily using.
>
> While I agree with point #2, it is of little consolation if the
> information is for monetary transactions!
>
> Comments?

I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already done something like this.
As the very least, I'm pretty sure that there is a Perl-based
replication solution for PostgreSQL.

If there's not, I'd love to see you post your solution to /Contrib. I
think it's a great idea, and a quick-and-dirty solution to a problem
for which the bulletproof solution would require significant capital.

For true, immediate 100% availability, I'd reccommend building two
databases on two different machines and writing to both from
middleware calls (like from Perl::DBI).

-Josh

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