Re: Geographical redundancy

If you're sure that data loss is unacceptable no matter what happens
to either site, then I'm not aware of too many options. As I
understand it, pgpool can be configured to send data-altering queries
to multiple servers in order to simulate a multi-master cluster, but
it's never been clear to me how this works if you use any non-
deterministic functions like random(). I'm not aware of any other
multi-master synchronous replication solution.

The only option I can think of (and it's ugly so hopefully somebody
could suggest something more elegant) would be to make postgres sit
on top of something like DRBD, so that both sites can stay in sync
with every write to disk. Then pick a site at which to run your
database, having your application at both sites connect to the active
server. In case of a problem, start up postgres at the other site and
have your app reconnect.

This will be slow. It will eat up your bandwidth. It will add
complexity. But it won't loose data.

On Dec 29, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Dennis wrote:

> - Yes, both sites have to be online and changing data at the same
> time.
> - data loss is unacceptable
> - platform is Gentoo Linux
> - downtime of up to 1 day is acceptable as long as there is no data
> loss
> - throughput latency -> internet over 10megabit line
>
>
> Ben <bench@silentmedia.com> wrote: Sure, there are lots of ways.
> Factors that start constraining things
> are:
>
> - do both sites have to be online (making changes to the data) at the
> same time?
> - how tightly do both sites have to stay in sync?
> - is data loss acceptable if one site suffers a disaster?
> - what platform are you running on?
> - how much throughput latency do you have between sites?
> - how much downtime is acceptable in switching sites?
>
> On Dec 26, 2006, at 11:41 PM, Dennis wrote:
>
> > Is there any feasible way to achieve geographical redundancy of
> > postgresql database?
> >
> > Say you have a website which uses PG on the backend to read/write
> > data and you want to have the website running on 2 separate servers
> > distributed geographically and have the data synchronize somehow
> > over the internet.
> >
> > In case one data center fails, website is still up and running from
> > 2nd geographical location (from say 2nd DNS server).
> >
> > Thank you.
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