[ic] Request for comments and documentation - multiple server architecture

Dan db@cyclonehq.dnsalias.net
Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:48:51 -0800


> Database clustering done by http://www.erserver.com (which wont be open
> source for another few weeks).

BZZZT.  Correction to self:  PostgreSQL has just CVS commit'ed their
database replication into the source tree this morning.  Wow.  I love how
time flies in open source worlds.

By the way, this discussion might open another can of good-stuff for
Interchange:
Application-level database clustering.  Where it becomes easy to specify
multiple DSN's for a given IC "Database" depending on if it is a write
action or a read action.  (i.e. all INSERTS use
masterdatabaseserver.domain.com/10.0.0.101, and all SELECT's use
slave_readonly_databaseserver.domain.com/10.0.0.102).

Would anyone like to comment on the feasability of adding that feature?
(easy,hard,impossible?)

Dan Browning - danb@cyclonecomputers.com