On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 22:17 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> > Well VLDB is like 2% of what we need. If the above will remove all the
> > B.S. currently associated with actually doing PITR (rsync, scp, nfs,
> > pg_standby pick your poison) then I am all for it.
> 
> If you use walmgr.py, then all you need is writing a conf file and
> making sure that ssh and rsync work.
> 
> Actually the best way to do Sync Rep would have been to just move to C
> what walmgr.py does. That the patch could have started off from a
> well-tested foundation.
> 

For sync?

> > Log shipping should be:
> > 
> > I am master, my slave is here.
> > I am slave, I understand my master is here.
> > Here is our mutual authentication love token.
> > Let congress begin.
> > 
> > Anything more and we are being difficult for the sake of being
> > difficult.
> 
> Actually I'd leave out the first line, and start with just
> 
> - I am slave, my master accepts me, start replicationg
> 

Heh fair enough.

> So there could be several slaves, of both hot standby postgresql,
> wal-file-store and store-and-forward-to-many types.

THat should be optional not the default.


Joshua D. Drake

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