[OSM-dev] load-osm.sh

[Paul Norman]

On 10/13/2014 12:52 AM, Sven Geggus wrote:
> I still think distributing sql updates for rendering databases in addition
> to osm diffs would be a nice to have feature, because the state of the osm
> database is of no interest to a rendering database.  I never tried to
> implement this though.

How I'd probably implement this after the C++ branch is merged is add a 
new "text" backend, where instead of connecting to PostgreSQL, commands 
are written out to text files, and then use the new multi-backend 
backend, outputting to both a database and minutely text files. The 
database would enable regular dumps to be taken, and the sql files could 
be easily applied with cat text | psql -f -.

A fairly common existing solution is to use postgres replication so only 
one server gets the io load of updates. Of course, this currently 
requires also replicating the slim tables, which was one of the 
motivations for the multi-backend.