Intro

Open source Tungsten Replicator for MySQL enables multi-master, parallel and even heterogeneous replication, together with zero-down time schema upgrades, transaction filtering and more, but all these features are hardly available for another elephant in the room - i.e. PostgreSQL. At least, that was true until now.

These article series present my recent extension to Tungsten Replicator, which enables logical replication for PostgreSQL and, effectively, opens up all the advanced …

Thanks to a patch Dane Miller submitted, MySQL Heartbeat can now be used to monitor Slony-I replication lag for PostgreSQL. It works identically: it updates a record on the master and looks for it on the slave. You just have to specify the database driver on the command-line:

mysql-heartbeat [options] --dbidriver=Pg

Most of the tools in the MySQL Toolkit are very MySQL-specific. This one just happened to be an exception, and I'm happy it's useful for more than the original purpose.