Re: PostgreSQL Replication with read-only access to standby DB

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:03:34AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:

> against. People who are using the current warm-standby code are already
> grappling with issues like how to coordinate master/slave failover
> (including my second favorite acronym, STONITH for "shoot the other node
> in the head"). I don't expect handling that sort of thing will ever be
> integrated into the PostgreSQL database core.

Note that most other database products don't integrate it in their core
either. They package separate tools for it, and sell it as a single system,
but you can often buy the separate tools independently. Oracle's RAC is an
exception, but it also works completely differently than any of this.

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