Re: Replication

Fujii Masao wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> It is however async replication so you can loose data commited on the
>> master but not yet replicated to the slaves in case you loose the master
>>  completely.
> 
> Yes, here is an insufficient point of Slony-I, i think.
> Most systems will not permit the committed data to be lost, so use is 
> limited.

Wanna bet?

It is very, very common to have asynchronous replication. I would say 
the need for synchronous is far more limited (although greater desired).

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> 
> 
>>> IMO, log-based replication is needed also for PostgreSQL just like 
>>> MySQL.
> 
> Well, I had misunderstood MySQL. Its replication is also asynchronous.
> 
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