Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-08 Thread Scott Ribe
You can also have a trigger that records into a log table the id & table of each record inserted/updated/deleted, and then it's a simple matter of merging changes from a certain point forward by searching that table and using the values of the current records. -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 8/7/07, Owen Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:15 PM -0700 8/7/07, Ben wrote: > >How many users do you have? Have you considered giving each user a > >schema in which to make their changes? It sounds like you don't > >really have a multi-master replication issue, which makes things > >e

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Ben
You can group schemas with views, and it guarentees nobody will accidently overwrite somebody else's stuff. Merging a two schemas with identical table structure should also be quite trivial. Of course, if you have a lot of users, this might not work so well On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Owen Hartnet

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Owen Hartnett
At 5:13 PM -0500 8/7/07, Scott Marlowe wrote: On 8/7/07, Owen Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's what I want to do: Checkpoint the database in whatever way is appropriate. Make copies of the database on several laptops for use in the field (in automobiles) to do database changes.

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Owen Hartnett
At 2:15 PM -0700 8/7/07, Ben wrote: How many users do you have? Have you considered giving each user a schema in which to make their changes? It sounds like you don't really have a multi-master replication issue, which makes things easier. Maybe I'm not understanding the strategy, but I don't

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 8/7/07, Owen Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's what I want to do: > > Checkpoint the database in whatever way is appropriate. > > Make copies of the database on several laptops for use in the field > (in automobiles) to do database changes. Record all the changes made > since the c

Re: [GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Ben
How many users do you have? Have you considered giving each user a schema in which to make their changes? It sounds like you don't really have a multi-master replication issue, which makes things easier. On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Owen Hartnett wrote: Here's what I want to do: Checkpoint the datab

[GENERAL] Take your postgresSql on the road, and live to tell of it.

2007-08-07 Thread Owen Hartnett
Here's what I want to do: Checkpoint the database in whatever way is appropriate. Make copies of the database on several laptops for use in the field (in automobiles) to do database changes. Record all the changes made since the checkpoint as the user makes them. Periodically take all the