Re: Trigger Function and backup

Hi Merlin, thanks for the detailed input.

As per ur suggestion i will try to implement Slony-I.

I think i will need some help to do it.

I am useing Postgres 8.3.7, on Windows.

I was following the Slony-I example in the help for pgAdmin III. I am able
to perform the steps from 1-7. Step 8 : create Slony-I cluster i am getting
a msg in the interface

"Slony-I creation script no available; only join possible"

On doing some research i found some scripts to be copied (I was not able to
find very clear instruction) or give slony-I path. i tried all that but was
not able to move ahead.

Can u plz guide me through &-(%-|

Regards
Nishkarsh

Merlin Moncure-2 wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Nishkarsh<nishkarsh_k@rediffmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello every one,
>>
>> I am new to databases. I am using Postgres 8.2 (Migrating to 8.3.7 in few
>> days) on windows platform.
>>
>> I had tried using Slony-I for replication and was not able to create a
>> cluster.
>>
>> After struggling for some time i decide to implement a way around to take
>> differential backup. As the tables getting changed were very less.
>>
>> Here is what i intend to do:
>>
>> - Write a trigger for each of the tables in concern
>> - Some how write a function which can copy / execute the same query in
>> another temp Db on the same physical system (I have no idea how to do
>> that)
>> - Take a backup of temp DB which will be the differential backup of DB
>> (We
>> need to clear temp db after backup)
>>
>> Am i going in the right direction?
>> Is there any way i can implement it.
>> Any help will be really of great help
>
> Generating a full trigger based replication system on your own is
> IMNSHO crazy.  Slony is the best solution to this problem (trigger
> replication with postgres) that I know of, and is probably better than
> any one person to come up with in a reasonable amount of time.
> Probably, your best course of action if you need to get things running
> right now is to give slony another go (why did you not succeed?).
>
> Hand written trigger replication is ok if you need to copy, say, a
> couple of tables or you have some other very specific requirement.  In
> particular, copying an insert to a mirror database with trigger
> function wrapping dblink is a snap (updates are more problematic, but
> doable).  Of course, you need to figure out how to deal with schema
> updates and other issues that plague replication systems such as
> volatile data in cascading triggers (just to name one).  General
> purpose trigger replication is a huge project...
>
> It sounds to me that what you really want is the 'hot standby' feature
> that unfortunately missed the cut for 8.4.  Hot standby is probably
> the easiest way to mirror a database for purposes of read only
> querying.  There are no triggers to worry about, just a few .conf
> settings and some other setup to get going (more or less, it isn't
> finalized yet).  So maybe, waiting for hot standby (or even, digging
> up a hot standby patch and trying to apply it vs. 8.4 if your
> adventurous) is the answer.
>
> Another possibility is to look at statement level replication, like
> pgpool.
>
> merlin
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