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I've given you enough<br />>>> clues to do it for "git" in probably five lines of perl.<br />>> <br />>> Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the transaction<br />>> logs and then replaying them. Most mid to high end databases support<br />>> this. You only need to copy the parts of the logs that you don't<br />>> already have.<br />>> <br />> Databases supporting replication are called high end. You forgot the cats <br />> dance<br />> around the network this issue involves.<br /><br />And Postgres (which is Free in all senses of the word) is high end by this <br />definition.<br /><br />I'm not saying that it's an efficiant thing to use for this task, but <br />don't be fooled into thinking you need something on the price of Oracle to <br />do this job.<br /><br />David Lang<br /><br />-- <br />There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. 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