Hi,
Is there anyway of turning off triggers dynamically?
Sandeep
> Hello everybody,
> I know there was an announcement on www.postgresql.com, that sometime in the
> future there will be a sort of replication mechanism for PostgreSQL.
>
> Now the problem:
>
> I have two servers, one providing content for a website (using PHP),
> anotherone where users are editing the contents. I now have to update the
> content-server on a regular base with the changes made in the
> editing-server. I thought of dumping the whole database through ssh to a new
> database on the content-server, then drop the old one and rename the new one.
> I guess the content to sth. around 5MB, so having a 5Mbit leased line,
> network traffic should be no problem.
>
> I see I will run into problems, when an old postgres-process is still
> connected to the database. Alternatively I thought of creating a
> modification timestamp for every recordset involved and pumping only the
> modificated sets to the content-server. I already have triggers running for
> providing information about updated/inserted recordsets. But what about
> deleted ones? I guess best would be to collect information about these in a
> seperate table and delete the ones on the content-server based on this table.
>
> Does anyone know of a more sensible way to get replication?
>
> Best Regards
> Mirko