On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> When people start talking multi-master replication my first response >> is to ask what problem you're trying to solve. Sometimes MM Rep IS the >> answer. But quite often it's not the best one for your problem. So to >> OP I'd ask what problem they're trying to solve. > Yes that's actually the right approach, multi-master replication is > often cited as a marketing term for a fantastic technology that can > solve a lot of problems, which could be solved with a couple of > Postgres servers using a single-master, multiple-slave approach, or by > simply design a system that can do data sharding among a set of > Postgres servers to achieve some kind of write scalability. Sharding with plproxy is pretty easy and can scale hugely. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
