| From: | "Henry" <henry(at)zen(dot)co(dot)za> |
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| To: | "Craig Ringer" <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle and Postgresql |
| Date: | 2008-09-01 07:51:14 |
| Message-ID: | 821d629e1f6f81a8452d2deec31b31a6.squirrel@zenmail.co.za |
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On Mon, September 1, 2008 4:09 am, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Right now, PostgreSQL has network-based master-to-slave(s) clustering
> using Slony that permits slaves to operate online read-only as reporting
> servers etc. It also covers failover with the use of an external
> heartbeat/STONITH setup. However, it's not completely transparent to the
> application and it's not seen as "part of postgresql".
>
> There are some other options that I'm largely unfamiliar with out there,
> but right now it seems that Slony is the way to go with Pg.
...and Skytools (as used by Skype, I believe, which is now Open Source),
which is far simpler to use and in my experience far more reliable.
Cheers
Henry
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