Re: Redundancy software for PostgreSQL

Carlos wrote:

> Hello Forum,
>
> I would appreciate it if you could recommend software to build redundancy in
> my application (my application stores data in a PostgreSQL v7.3.x database
> running in Linux RedHat)  The software would replicate or copy the database
> from a main server into a second server.  And when the main server goes
> down, the redundant database could still be available in a view mode --
> where most tables cannot be updated and only a couple of tables can be
> modified.  In this way, when the main server goes down, the users could
> still view data and when the main server goes back on-line, I can update a
> couple of tables of the main database with the data from the redundant
> database.
>
> Thanks in advance for your response.
>

Why not doing a full failover?

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/projdisplay.php


Jan

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