[clug] Postgres sync / duplication

Michael Carden crash at michaelcarden.net
Fri May 5 10:14:25 GMT 2006


Imagine this scenario:

Two servers. One Win2k with NTFS, one Red Hat Enterprise 3 with ext3. Each 
runs a Postgres server containing content identical to the other. Each has 
exactly one client workstation connected to it and no connection to anywhere 
else. Each has one metric buttload (and growing) of RAID attached to it.

Imagine this situation:

One and only one user needs to do some stuff with one of the databases. User 
logs into a workstation on either the Win or the Lin system and does work. 
User finishes.

Now, we need to synch the contents of the database that the user just fiddled 
with, across to the database on the other system. Nobody else is doing 
anything with either system once the user has finished, so stopping stuff and 
restarting is not a problem. The user may have chosen to work on the Win or 
the Lin database and it should make no difference which. The systems are not 
normally linked (separate Ethernet networks and separate fibrechannel to 
storage), but they could be for the duration of the 'synch.'

If the Win system went down for a month for some reason and work continued on 
the Lin system, it should be possible to synch again when the Win system is 
available again. And same if the Lin system goes down.

Any suggestions as to how this might be done?

Thanks,
MC




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