Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-08 Thread Scott Ribe
You can also have a trigger that records into a log table the id & table of each record inserted/updated/deleted, and then it's a simple matter of merging changes from a certain point forward by searching that table and using the values of the current records. -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 8/7/07, Owen Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:15 PM -0700 8/7/07, Ben wrote: > >How many users do you have? Have you considered giving each user a > >schema in which to make their changes? It sounds like you don't > >really have a multi-master replication issue, which makes things > >e

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Ben
You can group schemas with views, and it guarentees nobody will accidently overwrite somebody else's stuff. Merging a two schemas with identical table structure should also be quite trivial. Of course, if you have a lot of users, this might not work so well On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Owen Hartnet

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Owen Hartnett
At 5:13 PM -0500 8/7/07, Scott Marlowe wrote: On 8/7/07, Owen Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's what I want to do: Checkpoint the database in whatever way is appropriate. Make copies of the database on several laptops for use in the field (in automobiles) to do database changes.

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Owen Hartnett
At 2:15 PM -0700 8/7/07, Ben wrote: How many users do you have? Have you considered giving each user a schema in which to make their changes? It sounds like you don't really have a multi-master replication issue, which makes things easier. Maybe I'm not understanding the strategy, but I don't

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 8/7/07, Owen Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's what I want to do: > > Checkpoint the database in whatever way is appropriate. > > Make copies of the database on several laptops for use in the field > (in automobiles) to do database changes. Record all the changes made > since the c

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Ben
How many users do you have? Have you considered giving each user a schema in which to make their changes? It sounds like you don't really have a multi-master replication issue, which makes things easier. On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Owen Hartnett wrote: Here's what I want to do: Checkpoint the datab