| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | mdean <mdean(at)xn1(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Replication |
| Date: | 2006-08-21 04:09:06 |
| Message-ID: | 44E931E2.80508@commandprompt.com |
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> In contrast, the PostgreSQL team has chosen to provide hooks for
> replication and failover. This has led to a situation where there are
> multiple projects supporting replications/failover, none of which are
> production-ready nor shipped in a modern Linux distro.
And no, we don't really provide hooks :). However there are several
projects trying to solve different problems with PostgreSQL.
>
> Modern systems *must* scale beyond a single computer, and the PostgreSQL
> support shipped in modern Linux distros is completely incapable of this.
Slony-I is quite capable as a production class FOSS replication system
and is in use widely.
Joshua D. Drake
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