From 8c556ce1c21c09a8d7f8e0a100cd00fd8faf437c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:01:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New async/sync multi-master headings for docs. --- doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml | 38 ++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml index bc09f40c58..9e2adbaab2 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + High Availability and Load Balancing @@ -133,11 +133,11 @@ protocol to make nodes agree on a serializable transactional order. - Master/Slave Replication + Master-Slave Replication - A master/slave replication setup sends all data modification + A master-slave replication setup sends all data modification queries to the master server. The master server asynchronously sends data changes to the slave server. The slave can answer read-only queries while the master server is running. The @@ -184,24 +184,24 @@ protocol to make nodes agree on a serializable transactional order. - Multi-Master Replication + Synchonous Multi-Master Replication - In multi-master replication, each server can accept write - requests, and modified data is transmitted from the original - server to every other server before each transaction commits. - Heavy write activity can cause excessive locking, leading to - poor performance. In fact, write performance is often worse - than that of a single server. Read requests can be sent to - any server. Some implementations use cluster-wide shared memory - or shared disk to reduce the communication overhead. Clustering - is best for mostly read workloads, though its big advantage is - that any server can accept write requests — there is no - need to partition workloads between master and slave servers, - and because the data changes are sent from one server to another, - there is no problem with non-deterministic functions like - random(). + In synchonous multi-master replication, each server can accept + write requests, and modified data is transmitted from the + original server to every other server before each transaction + commits. Heavy write activity can cause excessive locking, + leading to poor performance. In fact, write performance is + often worse than that of a single server. Read requests can + be sent to any server. Some implementations use cluster-wide + shared memory or shared disk to reduce the communication + overhead. Clustering is best for mostly read workloads, though + its big advantage is that any server can accept write requests + — there is no need to partition workloads between master + and slave servers, and because the data changes are sent from + one server to another, there is no problem with non-deterministic + functions like random(). @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ protocol to make nodes agree on a serializable transactional order. - Multi-Master With Conflict Resolution + Asynchronous Multi-Master Replication -- 2.40.0