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 …
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02
2011
Nov
07
2007
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.
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