[Pgcluster-general] General question from lurker

[Rick Vernam]

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:43:56 am Conlon, Joseph F SIK wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been lurking on this list looking for a solution to a problem I
> have.
>
> I operate in a mixed OS environment in which our primary database
> servers run PostgreSQL on Linux (GenToo). Now I have a requirement for
> laptop based remote systems likely running WinXP. I require some
> synchronization of data but not all. It is my impression that PGCluster
> is a true full synchronization agent and thus is not appropriate for
> this task (Strike 1) and it has no windoze port at this time (Strike 2). 
> Is this correct?
Correct

>
> I found very little documentation on pgfoundry. Is more available?
pgcluster.org

>
> Is there any plan to support Windows?
Speaking for myself, I can say there is no motivation to do so.

>
> I may still setup a multi-master system in the near future for Linux
> systems that are geographically remote with a lowish bandwidth network.
I run a cluster which is geographically distributed over a lowish bandwidth 
(highish latency) network.  I have mixed read/write query distribution, but 
less than 25 users.  There is a performance hit due to the geographic 
distribution and the bandwidth, but it is small price to pay for what we get 
in return.

>
> Thank you all for developing this product! Hopefully I will soon join
> the ranks.
>
> Regards
>
> 	Joe
>
> Joseph F. Conlon
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> Sikorsky Aircraft, Development Flight Center
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>
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>
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