Howdy. Darren, I'd reply in person, but there are issues with
your mail account. ;~) At anyrate, is there a mailing list that the
Postgres-R development is happening on so that I could drop in and
either listen/contribute? Thanks. -sc
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From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To: Darren Johnson <djohnson@greatbridge.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] IDEA: Multi-master replication possible through
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+(or even master-slave)...
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:01:58AM -0400, Darren Johnson wrote:
> Delivered-To: chittenden.org-sean-pgsql-hackers@chittenden.org
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:01:58 -0400
> From: Darren Johnson <djohnson@greatbridge.org>
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> To: Sean Chittenden <sean-pgsql-hackers@chittenden.org>
> CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] IDEA: Multi-master replication possible through spread (or even master-slave)...
>
> Sean Chittenden wrote:
>
> > Has anyone here thought about using the spread libraries for WAL
> > replication amongst mutliple hosts? With this library I think it'd be
> > possible to have a multi-master replication system..
>
> Yes, there is some work being done to use Spread as the group
> communication system
> for Postgres-R, but we are just getting started with this software.
> Using a group
> communication system to establish total order messages is one of the
> basic principles for
> synchronous multi-master replication with Postgres-R. Currently
> Ensemble (form Cornell
> University) is used, but Spread looks to be more robust and it appears
> to be supported
> on most if not all of the PostgreSQL supported platforms.
>
> It's very cool to see positive testimony for Spread, and I hope I will
> feel the same way
> as I become more familiar with it.
--
Sean Chittenden