On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:35:00PM -0500, Dave Chapeskie wrote:
> 
> Basically I would like the ability for a large replicated table to
> have distributed origins where each row has a specific origin which is
> allowed to modify the row and propagates changes to all slaves.  Each
> row only needs to have a single origin/master however (i.e. I don't need
> full multi-master support).
> 
> I'm hoping some of the developers can comment on
> 
> (a) How difficult would it be for me to add this to SlonyI?  Is it even
>     feasible?

Sure.  I know Joe Conway does something like this with dbmirror. 
But. . .

> (b) If I were to produce a patch that implements this would it be
>     considered for inclusion into SlonyI at all or do you intend to
>     restrict these types of features to SlonyII.

. . .what you're talking about is not multi-master.  Multi-master is
intended to be a full-blown cluster, write-in-any-db,
see-it-everywhere system.

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