On Apr 21, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Brian Peschel wrote:

> I have a replication problem I am hoping someone has come across before and 
> can provide a few ideas.
> 
> I am looking at a configuration of on 'writable' node and anywhere from 10 to 
> 300 'read-only' nodes.  Almost all of these nodes will be across a WAN from 
> the writable node (some over slow VPN links too).  I am looking for a way to 
> replicate as quickly as possible from the writable node to all the read-only 
> nodes.  I can pretty much guarantee the read-only nodes will never become 
> master nodes.  Also, the updates to the writable node are bunched and at 
> known times (ie only updated when I want it updated, not constant updates), 
> but when changes occur, there are a lot of them at once.

Two things you didn't address are the acceptable latency of keeping the 
read-only nodes in sync with the master - can they be different for a day? A 
minute? Do you need things to stay synchronous? Also, how big is your dataset? 
A simple pg_dump and some hot scp action after you batched updates might be 
able to solve your problem.
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