Re: Postgresql replication

From: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
To: William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgresql replication
Date: 2005-08-25 13:19:19
Message-ID: 430DC557.7090905@wildenhain.de
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William Yu schrieb:
> Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>
>>>> Which is the problem we face. Great, you've got multiple servers for
>>>> failover. Too bad it doesn't do much good if your building gets hit
>>>> by fire/earthquake/hurricane/etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> This would remove the application using that data too, or not? ;)
>
>
> Yes and no. If your DB is an internal app for a company where the users
> are in the same building as the servers, doesn't matter really I guess.
> Meteor hitting the building would kill the users in addition to the
> server so nobody will be calling you to complain about system downtime.
>
> If your app is used by external customers who are all across the
> country, they want to continue to still use your software even though
> you and data center #1 are 6 feet under due to an 8.0 earthquake. They
> want auto-failover to data center #2 which is in close proximity to CIA
> headquarters and other juicy terrorist targets.

Sure, but in this case a "simple" async master-slave (slony-1)
and the usual failover (also DNS-failover) should be sufficient.

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