Re: Read-only availability of a standby server?

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:33 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:20:51PM -0800, Garber, Mikhail wrote:
> 
> > In the high-availabilty situation with a warm standby, is it possible (or
> > planned) to be able to make standby readable?
> 
> Yes, but it won't happen for 8.3.  It's a feature you can have today with
> Slony, by the way.

Slony provides the _means_ for it to be a standby-read-only server, but
it _does_ not provide a way for load balancing the queries, (which is
what I  really want anyway) The only way to do that is through another
app like LVS / pgpool or even coding it directly into the frontend app.