Richard,
Thanks for the response.
I'll look into both the dblink and iirc.
Do you know of any extended examples of either?
--Ted
--- Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
> Ted Shab wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to come up with a relatively simple
> > multi-master replication solution. This is for
> > multiple databases that need to be discreet, and
> > change relatively infrequently (10-30 updates an
> > hour), and almost never update each others data
> (less
> > than once a day).
> >
> > The TCL-based replication project for multi-master
> is
> > troublesome to configure and seems to really
> impact
> > performance. It can be assumed that the
> master-slave
> > setup will not work for me, nor do we want to
> purchase
> > a commercial soluton, nor can we run this all from
> one
> > central database.
>
> > e. If there is a field level conflict, raise an
> > exception (TBD).
>
> Exception handling and failure recovery are what
> makes for all the work
> in replication.
>
> I don't think a pure listen/notify setup will be
> enough because iirc the
> system doesn't guarantee delivery of multiple
> notifications if >1 are
> queued.
>
> Have you looked into the possibility of using dblink
> to handle updates
> of each others' data? That would mean your problem
> reverting to one of
> single-master replication.
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>
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