Re: Replication

> In contrast, the PostgreSQL team has chosen to provide hooks for 
> replication and failover. This has led to a situation where there are 
> multiple projects supporting replications/failover, none of which are 
> production-ready nor shipped in a modern Linux distro.

And no, we don't really provide hooks :). However there are several 
projects trying to solve different problems with PostgreSQL.

> 
> Modern systems *must* scale beyond a single computer, and the PostgreSQL 
> support shipped in modern Linux distros is completely incapable of this.

Slony-I is quite capable as a production class FOSS replication system 
and is in use widely.

Joshua D. Drake


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