Subject RE: [Firebird-Architect] Firebird improvement suggestion
Author Paul Beach
> There is a third approach, similar to what you wrote here: use triggers
> and events. You can have replicator sitting in background (on main
> server) and waiting for event, when event fires, it would just read from
> transaction_log table (filled by triggers) do a query with WHERE clause
> using the PK, and insert/update/delete that record in other database.
>
> It is very good approach. If network gets down, replicator can build a
> list of events, and when connection is back online it can update the
> other database. Since it is only using PKs it is not performance
> intensive at all. It is somewhat invasive on database structure but if
> proper naming is used for all triggers, then it is probably not an issue.
>
> Now, the thing is: I don't know if such replicator exists. I'm even
> considering to make one myself, but why waste time if there is something
> already there. Do anyone know about such replicator?

IBReplicator does this and more.

Paul