Postgres-R is not ready for production, and development seems to have stopped., and I don't know what multi-master solutions we can really offer right now. We do have several master/slave replication solutions.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bopolissimus Platypus wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 00:34, Jan Wieck wrote: > > > You must have misunderstood something there. The whole idea of > > Postgres-R is how to "avoid" the need for 2-phase commit in a > > synchronous replication system. > > I've been looking at postgres-r and other postgres replication > temporary solutions. does anyone have a good *current* summary > of postgres-r status? from the website it looks like the working model > is based on 6.2. is postgres-r 6.2 supposed to be good enough > for production? that's what i'd assume "working model" means, > but confirmation from people who've actually stress tested it would > be great :). > > the 7.2 version is the development version. i don't see much detail > (documentation) though on how stable the 7.2 version is. looking > at the docs in the download itself, everything seems to refer to generic > 7.2. i don't see anything that looks like postgres-r specific documentation. > so i can't tell what things are implemented and what things still > need to be implemented (but of course i might just not be looking > hard enough for the data. to be honest, i'm just grepping for > "replication", opening files that look like they might be interesting > and scanning them, it's not like i've read everything in the doc > directory). > > in doc/TODO.detail/replication, there's a bunch of emails, but the > last one seems to be from 2001. > > there's src/backend/replication/README, but that seems to discuss > only 6.2 work. i could do a diff, i suppose between the working model > and 7.2, but i can't right now. i'm behind a dialup modem and it would > take too long to download 6.2 :). maybe tomorrow at the office :). > > but again, if someone has detailed and up-to-date information (summary > or in detail) on the 7.2 postgres-r status, that would be incredibly > cool :). > > hmmm, there's a mailing list. archives at: > > http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/pgreplication-general/ > > i didn't see any detailed summary of what's missing in 7.2 though. > oh well, i'll just set up some test servers and just play with > it for now, i guess. > > thanks for any information. > > tiger > > -- > Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph > http://bopolissimus.sni.ph > Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" > > for whom self-parody appears to be a form of self-realization > -- http://slate.msn.com/id/2090554/?0si=- > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
