Monthly Archives: March 2010

geocoding and spatial database queries using python with django and postgis

Python is an excellent language for developing GIS applications.  It’s very easy to create a web service that queries a spatial database and returns a result.  Sometimes that sort of thing is called a location based service.  They are common … Continue reading

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installing bucardo for multi-master postgres database replication

In my quest for postgres replication/clustering nirvana I’ve played with pgpool, slony, rubyrep and now bucardo. Our requirements are painless bidirectional synchronization between two postgresql databases that serve a django application. Bucardo seems awesome, but there are some problems with … Continue reading

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using rubyrep to replicate a postgresql database on ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala)

Update: I was mistaken about rubyrep’s ability to support continuous replication.  See my new post for an update. For my current project, we need to replicate a postgresql 8.4 database between several sites.  We are looking at bucardo and rubyrep. … Continue reading

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