Re: Replication

On 01/11/10 20:01, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Jonathan Tripathy wrote on 01.11.2010 20:53:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm looking for the best solution for "Hot Standbys" where once the
>> primary server fails, the standby will take over and act just like
>> the master did. The standby must support INSERTS and UPDATES as well
>> (once the master has failed)
>>
>> Are there any solutions like this? Looking on the Postgresql site,
>> all the standby solutions seem to be read only..
>
> 9.0 has streaming replication and "Hot Standby"
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hot-standby.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/warm-standby.html#STREAMING-REPLICATION
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>
> Regards
> Thomas
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But does that not only allow "read-only" things to work on the standby?