Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed architecture

[Horst Herb]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 21:36, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> not scale well with increasing network size. A hospital will
> likely make applications transparently reroute to secondary
> servers should the primary servers fail. GP practices will be
> fine with restarting new client instances that connect to the
> backup server machine manually. BLOBs will be stored on
> dedicated raw data servers, likely on Jukeboxes.

1.) SQLRelay can replicate and load balance PostgreSQL servers = free scalable 
solution
2.) There is commercial support & version of a Replication server available 
for PostgreSQL
3.) Blobs are a service in gnumed, hence no problem with them anyway

Horst