Re: [Gnumed-devel] Synching

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:54:20PM +0200, Thiemo Kellner wrote:

> is there the possibility in GnuMed to defer the changes to data such
> that one could use the GnuMed client soft on a laptop or the like
> and commit the changes to the database when back from seeing
> patients ?

I am not aware of any PostgreSQL technology allowing for that.

> Or is the recommended way to use a master database on a
> kind of server and synch/replicate a local database on a mobile
> client?

That will work as long as there are either

- no changes to the master database while the mobile client
  is disconnected and master-slave replication is used
  appropriately or

- no *conflicting* changes are done to both databases and a
  master-master replication solution is used

Karsten
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