Re: PostgreSQL clustering (shared disk)

From: Hannes Dorbath <light(at)theendofthetunnel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: drbd-user(at)lists(dot)linbit(dot)com
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL clustering (shared disk)
Date: 2007-08-17 14:19:57
Message-ID: 46C5AE8D.2080408@theendofthetunnel.de
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On 17.08.2007 15:59, Tom Lane wrote:
> On the other side of the coin, I have little confidence in DRBD
> providing the storage semantics we need (in particular guaranteeing
> write ordering). So that path doesn't sound exactly risk-free either.

To my understanding DRBD provides this. I think a discussion about that
with the DRBD developers would be very useful for many users searching
for a solution to replicate PostgreSQL, so I'm cross posting this to
DRBD list. Maybe you can make clear in detail what requirements
PostgreSQL has.

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Regards,
Hannes Dorbath

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