On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 12:08:51PM +0000, Smith, Travis wrote:
> Hello Beautiful People,
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> I have a question regarding a good performing BDR system for Postgres. I am
> currently evaluating/prototyping a primary-primary/master-master replication
> system. I have a question around the experience held by the community at
> large. Has anyone worked in a production environment with a solid BDR
> platform that performs well? I am currently testing SymmetricDS but I am
> worried about a few things although the feature set is salivating.
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> Any hints to other software would be great, the organization has budget cap to
> bring a talented consultant or consultant firm in to fulfill an advisory role.
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> So far I have reviewed:
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> Greenplum -- always lagging in version
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> PG 16 logical replication – very basic – manual conflict resolution.
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> SymmetricDS – trigger based replication
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> EDB BDR (PGD) – not an option at this time
Well, I think you have the right data above. There isn't much demand
for multi-master in the community because the usefulness of it is
limited; see:
https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2018.html#December_24_2018
We are working on expanding logical replication to handle DDL changes
and conflicts, but that work is a few years away from completion.
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