Re: Constant WAL replay
- From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
- To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
- Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, eg(at)cybertec(dot)at
- Subject: Re: Constant WAL replay
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:48:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Message-id: <200504242248(dot)j3OMm4602985(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:10:34AM +0200, Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The idea: We are looking for a way to implement a synchronous
> >>single-master / multiple slaves systems.
> >>Meanwhile we are able to serialize / deserialize WAL records and send
> >>them to a group communication system which transports those records to
> >>the slave database.
> >>This is not hard to do.
> >
> >
> > In fact, I believe Command Prompt's Mammoth Replicator does exactly
> > this.
>
> Very close. We don't use the WAL (yet, slated for probably 8.1) but we
> do use a transaction log shipping method. So the implementation is
> almost the same.
Can you run queries on the slave? If so, how do you handle xid collisions?
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