Best way to replicate a DB between two servers (master/slave)
Mirko Zeibig <mirko@picard.inka.de>
From: Mirko Zeibig <mirko@picard.inka.de>
To: Postgres Mailing List <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-20T23:18:14Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hello everybody, I know there was an announcement on www.postgresql.com, that sometime in the future there will be a sort of replication mechanism for PostgreSQL. Now the problem: I have two servers, one providing content for a website (using PHP), anotherone where users are editing the contents. I now have to update the content-server on a regular base with the changes made in the editing-server. I thought of dumping the whole database through ssh to a new database on the content-server, then drop the old one and rename the new one. I guess the content to sth. around 5MB, so having a 5Mbit leased line, network traffic should be no problem. I see I will run into problems, when an old postgres-process is still connected to the database. Alternatively I thought of creating a modification timestamp for every recordset involved and pumping only the modificated sets to the content-server. I already have triggers running for providing information about updated/inserted recordsets. But what about deleted ones? I guess best would be to collect information about these in a seperate table and delete the ones on the content-server based on this table. Does anyone know of a more sensible way to get replication? Best Regards Mirko