aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx (Aly Dharshi) writes: > I know I am wadding into this discussion as an beginner compared to > the rest who have answered this thread, but doesn't something like > pgpool provide relief for pseudo-multimaster replication, and what > about software like sqlrelay wouldn't these suites help to some extent > ? Looking forward to be enlightened. pgpool and sqlrelay provide you a loose equivalent to synchronous replication, as they have to submit the queries to *all* of the nodes. If you can live with the long latency times that result if the nodes are widely separated, that's great. Unfortunately, the reason for people to want *asynchronous* multimaster replication is that they /cannot/ afford that latency time. They want to submit updates only to the local database, and have the updates head to the other server some time later. That's why pgpool/sqlrelay aren't an answer. -- output = ("cbbrowne" "@" "acm.org") http://cbbrowne.com/info/languages.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #46. "If an advisor says to me "My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?", I will reply "This." and kill the advisor." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq