Thank you everyone for your replies, the thoughts and context are greatly appreciated!
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 13 August 2015 at 23:52, Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The context of this is using BDR to implement a HA solution where we > have > > one node getting all connections at a time, if the node fails we move all > > connections to another node. (eg. only one node gets all connections at > any > > given time). > > This sounds like a job better suited to a normal active/standby > configuration with regular built-in streaming replication. Use a tool > like repmgr to manage failover and a proxy like pgbouncer to redirect > traffic. > > There's no reason to use async multi-master replication when simple > single-master replication will do just as well. > > -- > Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services > -- ~Wayne Wayne E. Seguin wayneeseg...@gmail.com wayneeseguin on irc.freenode.net http://twitter.com/wayneeseguin/ https://github.com/wayneeseguin/
