How difficult is it to switch the master's hat from one DB instance to another? Let's say the master in a master-slave scenario goes down but the slave is fine. Can I designate the slave as being the new master, use it for read/write, and then just call the broken master the new slave once it comes back to life (something like that)? -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Sabino Mullane Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:28 AM To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 > - MySQL is horizontally scalable via clustering and multi-master > replication (though you must beware of numerous gotchas). PostgreSQL can > be used with read-only slaves via Slony/Bucardo/etc replication, but is > limited to a single authoriative master. > > (There's work ongoing to enable readonly hot standby slaves with > failover, but no multi-master is on the horizion). Well that's refreshing: usually Bucardo is mistaken for a system that only does master-master and not master-slave, rather than vice-versa. :) You can have two authoritative masters with Bucardo, in addition to any number of slaves radiating from one or both of those (as well as just simple master->slaves). > - It's a cool tool when you want to query and integrate data from all > sorts of disparate sources, thanks to its support for pluggable storage > engines. If you want something for data analysis and integration rather > than safe storage it's well worth looking at. What sort of sources? I'm curious here to find areas we can improve upon. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200912170927 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAksqP9kACgkQvJuQZxSWSshbUQCg3CfvpeivDi6gg2bkr74I17Qe RKAAnRu3GTUQ3Bg3R2Fq3eOsgK4N0xd1 =5r9R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
