Re: postgresql clustering

Gaetano Mendola wrote:

>Daniel Duvall wrote:
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>>I've looked at PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB, but I can't find anything
>>definitive  as far as clustering capabilities.  What kinds of projects
>>are there for clustering PgSQL, and are any of them mature enough for
>>commercial apps?
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Are you looking for clustering or replication? There are two very 
popular replication
solutions: Slony-I and Mammoth Replicator.

Slony-I is an external replication solution, Mammoth Replicator is a 
complete
PostgreSQL + Replication solution.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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>As you well know "clustering" means all and nothing at the same time.
>We do have a commercial failover cluster for provided by Redhat,
>with postgres running on it. The Postgres is installed on both nodes and the
>data are stored on SAN, only one instance of postgres run at time in one
>of two nodes. In last 2 years we had a failure and the service relocation
>worked as expected.
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>Consider also that applications shall have a good behaviour like "try" to
>close the current connection and retry to open a new one for a while....
>
>Regards
>Gaetano Mendola
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