[OSM-dev] Hourly Diffs

[Matthias Julius]

Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> writes:

> In message <87ve7lyrxj.fsf at julius-net.net>
>         Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
>
>> Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> writes:
>>
>>> In message <87k5o117vj.fsf at julius-net.net>
>>>         Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brett Henderson <brett at bretth.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> These diffs are now created by osmosis itself rather than using external 
>>>>> shell scripts.  As a result I can vary the interval anywhere down to one 
>>>>> second granularity with a simple config file update, so if smaller files 
>>>>> help it is easy to achieve.
>>>>
>>>> At some point it might be more sensible to set up replication between
>>>> the two MySQL servers.
>>>
>>> Which two MySQL servers would that be? We only have one...
>>
>> API and OSMXAPI? Or what does the XAPI use as backend?
>
> MySQL I believe, but it has it's own schema - it isn't a mirror of
> the main database, rather it is a separate database that has been
> optimised for answering large queries.

OK, if it is using a different scheme that makes replication
difficult. Is this documented somewhere?

Matthias