Have you looked at intermezzo? http://www.inter-mezzo.org/
Valter Mazzola wrote:
> I've succesfully pacthed linux kernel 2.2.17 with DIPC and modified
> postgresql's src (src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c) to create distributed
> shm and sem.
>
> The strategy is then to start a postgresql that creates shm and sem on
> ONE machine, then start other postgres on other machines on the cluster
> that create NO shared structures ( there is a command line flag to do
> this).
>
> Than you can connect to any of the postgres on your cluster, for
> example: round robin.
>
> Another issue are datafiles, GFS seems promising.
> But postgresql uses fcnl, and GFS (globalfilesystem.org) doesn't support
> it yet.
> A distributed filesystem with locking etc. is required, Ideas ?
>
>
> Another issue is that DIPC doesn't have a failover mechanism.
>
> This is a shared All approach, it's not the best, but probably it's the
> fastest solution (bad) to implement, with little modifications (4-5)
> lines to postgresql sources.
>
> This system can give a sort of single-system-image, useful to distribute
> other software beyond postgresql.
>
> Also Mariposa (http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/mariposa/) seems
> interesting,
> but it's not maintained and it's for an old postgresql version.
>
> hoping for clustrering...
> valter mazzola.
>
>
>> From: Alain Toussaint <nailed@videotron.ca>
>> To: PostgreSQL general list <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Database cluster?
>> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:05:16 -0500 (EST)
>>
>> > Somebody mentioned the fact that postgres uses IPC for communicating
>> > between processes. I think there are tools for clustering (I am not
>> sure if
>> > Mosix supports transparently allowing IPC across nodes) which can work
>> > around that.
>>
>> one of those tool is distributed ipc <http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc/> but
>> it only work with Linux,AFAIK,the software there is just a patch to the
>> Linux kernel and a daemon.
>>
>> Alain
>>
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