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diff --git a/databases/skytools/DESCR b/databases/skytools/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7c81833e23f --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/skytools/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +SkyTools is a package of tools in use in Skype for replication and failover. +It also includes a generic queuing mechanism called PgQ and a utility +library for Python scripts, as well as a script for setting up and managing +WAL based standby servers. + +PgQ is a queuing system written in PL/pgSQL, Python and C code. It is based +on snapshot-based event handling ideas from Slony-I, and is written for +general usage. PgQ provides an efficient, transactional, queueing system +with multi-node support (including work sharing and splitting, failover and +switchover, for queues and for consumers). PgQ is split into 3 layers: +Producers, Ticker and Consumers. + +Londiste is a replication tool written in Python, using PgQ as event +transport. + +Walmgr is a script that will setup WAL archiving, does the initial backup, +and runtime WAL archive and restore. It can also be used for +up-to-last-second partial file copying, so that less than the whole file is +lost in case of loss of the master database server. |