On Nov 11, 2003, at 12:11 PM, Joe Conway wrote:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1.html
>
> Very interesting read. Nice work!
Ditto. I'll read it a bit closer later, but after a quick read it
seems quite complete and well thought out. I especially like
that sequences are being dealt with.
Thanks for putting the effort in, and making it a community project.
>
>> We want to build this system as a community project. The plan was from
>> the beginning to release the product under the BSD license. And we
>> think
>> it is best to start it as such and to ask for suggestions during the
>> design phase already.
>
> I couldn't quite tell from the design doc -- do you intend to support
> conditional replication at a row level?
>
> I'm also curious, with cascaded replication, how do you handle the
> case where a second level slave has a transaction failure for some
> reason, i.e.:
>
> M
> / \
> / \
> Sa Sb
> / \ / \
> Sc Sd Se Sf
>
> What happens if data is successfully replicated to Sa, Sb, Sc, and Sd,
> and then an exception/rollback occurs on Se?
>
> Joe
>
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