Re: [HACKERS] Horizontal Write Scaling

2010-11-27 Thread Eliot Gable
Thanks, everyone, for all the feedback! I am nowhere near a database expert yet, but you guys have been very helpful in clearing up some of my confusion. I have checked out Postgres-XC and it looks like the version 1.0 that will be released soon probably covers everything I have been looking for in

Re: [HACKERS] Horizontal Write Scaling

2010-11-23 Thread Eliot Gable
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Eliot Gable > wrote: > Other than that, is there anything else I am missing? Wouldn't this type of > setup be far simpler to implement and provide better scalability than trying > to do multi-master replication using log shipping or binary obj

[HACKERS] Horizontal Write Scaling

2010-11-23 Thread Eliot Gable
I know there has been a lot of talk about replication getting built into Postgres and I know of many projects that aim to fill the role. However, I have not seen much in the way of a serious attempt at multi-master write scaling. I understand the fundamental problem with write scaling across multip