On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:29:56PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 03:44:26PM -0800, Marc Munro wrote: > >> experts there may suggest a better solution. I have seen talk of > >> disabling the standard slony triggers to allow this sort of thing but > >> whether that is more or less nasty is questionable. > > > > FWIW, I don't think that's the question; it's more like whether it'd > > be merely horribly nasty or likely to break in unexpected and really > > painful ways. ;-) But the discussion around that surely should move > > to the Slony list. > > It seems to me that lots of the "stuff" in Slony-I could be reapplied > to _try_ to create an asynchronous multimaster replication system. > > A *major* addition would need to be some form of "conflicts queue." > > That's the sort of thing they have in the analagous "O-word" > replication system. > > What's a non-starter is to try to reshape the Slony-I project into > "async multimaster." That would get considerable push-back :-). > > But if someone decided to "fork" their own *new* project, perhaps > starting based on one of the releases, that would an entirely > interesting idea. Wouldn't async multimaster make use of most all of what slony-I currently has? ISTM that it would make life a lot easier to use one combined project rather than two... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
