Re: Synchronous Log Shipping Replication

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:11 +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote:

> Why not have a design where the slave is in control for it's own data ?
> I mean the slave...

The slave only exists because it is a copy of the master. If you try to
"startup" a slave without first having taken a copy, how would you
bootstrap the slave? With what? To what? It sounds cool, but its not
practical.

I posted a workable suggestion today on another subthread.

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