[Date Prev][Date Next]
[Chronological]
[Thread]
[Top]
Re: Any success story using syncRepl with postgresql backend?
Hi P,
Thanks for the info. I will pass this onto my company decision makers
and see whether we like to "renew" the interest.
Thanks,
\Tommy
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 14:27 +0200, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> Tommy Ho wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone had success with using multi-master
> > replication (syncrepl with mirrormode enabled) using postgresql as the
> > backend?
> >
> > I had this working using BDB but when I switched over to use postgres as
> > the backend, the synchronization becomes very erratic and inconsistent,
> > deleted data from one master never gets propagated and newly added data
> > will sometimes get sync'd and sometimes it doesn't.
>
> As far as I remember, sync replication support for back-sql was very
> experimental, and it broke at some stage of syncrepl development. So
> the fact you see an erratic behavior is as much as you could expect.
> I'd rather expect that no replication occurs at all. Patches are
> welcome, as usual, but I don't believe right now there's much interest
> in having that feature work as intended. It was pursued at some point
> relying on some customer's request which was never formalized; as such,
> interest in that very specialized development reduced, and no one seems
> to be willing to restore it. A renewed interest might boost its
> development, though.
>
> p.
>
>
>
> Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
> OpenLDAP Core Team
>
> SysNet s.r.l.
> via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA
> http://www.sys-net.it
> ---------------------------------------
> Office: +39 02 23998309
> Mobile: +39 333 4963172
> Email: pierangelo.masarati@sys-net.it
> ---------------------------------------
>
>