[GENERAL] DBmirror

2006-12-21 Thread amrit
I would like to know whether I can set DBmirror replication from the fedora core 5_64 which postgresql8.1 was installed by rpm process not by compiling the source. All of the component include server, contrib, perl, test, doc, devel and lib were also rpm and what is the way to set it? Do I need to

Re: [GENERAL] DBmirror replication - replacement for DBMirror.pl

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Wilson
Just to add - the replacement for DBMirror.pl automatically works out the schema in use and will replicate using DBmirror from 7.x or from 8.x (table names all changed!). This is done transparently. I also wrote a short article at http://www.whitebeam.org/library/guide/TechNotes/replicate.rhtm

[GENERAL] DBmirror replication - replacement for DBMirror.pl

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Wilson
Not sure whether this is any use to anyone, or whether this is the right list to post to but... I've just released a C++ implementation of the DBMirror.pl script as part of Whitebeam (http://www.whitebeam.org). We had *real* performance issues with the Perl implementation replicating large fiel

Re: [GENERAL] dbmirror

2004-05-14 Thread Fred Fung
sday, May 13, 2004 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] dbmirror > Does dbmirror do that? No, it does not. It also doesn't support > promoting a slave database to a master; that has to be done manually, so > I wouldn't consider that too big a problem. > > Worse in my opinion is th

Re: [GENERAL] dbmirror

2004-05-13 Thread Gregory Wood
Does dbmirror do that? No, it does not. It also doesn't support promoting a slave database to a master; that has to be done manually, so I wouldn't consider that too big a problem. Worse in my opinion is that sequences don't get updated... so a slave that tries to do an insert on a replicated t

Re: [GENERAL] dbmirror

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:53:05PM -0700, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > Fred -- > > Yes, the slave database(s) can be safely used in a R/O mode, Does it also block write transactions in those slaves? The ability for clients to write into the slave replicated tables is a problem, because it ma