On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Mike Christensen <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm considering using a cloud hosting solution for my website. It > will probably be either Amazon, Rackspace or Hosting.com. I'm still > comparing. Either way, my site will consist of multiple virtual > server instances that I can create and destroy as needed. Each > virtual machine instance will be self contained, meaning it'll run the > website and its own instance of postgres. The website will only talk > to the local DB instance. However, if I'm running several machine > instances, I want all the databases to keep in sync preferably with as > little lag as possible. > > This is not a master/slave replication issue where there's one big DB > that's always up and everything syncs to, this is basically total > peer-to-peer replication where any time data is updated on one server, > an update command gets sent to all the other servers. I would also > have to address the issue when I provision a new virtual server, I'd > have to import the current data into the DB seamlessly. > > What's the best way to do this? I think right now you're stuck coding it up yourself. No small task. > Looks like something like pgPool > might be what I want, but I haven't looked into it deeply yet. > Thanks!! The only thing that gets close is bucardo. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
