On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:44:46PM +0200, Claudio Cicali wrote: [snip] > Here, seems that are the slaves that pop data from master. > So where is the truth ? Is the master that pushes or the slaves the pops ? > Or it is a combination of the two ? In normal operation, the master pushes to the slave. When a slave is turned off temporarily and is turned back on, it pops all changes that happened while it was down. After that, the master starts pushing again. Magic 5 letter word: MySQL. Tsk. Greetz, Peter -- Monopoly http://www.dataloss.nl/monopoly.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php