Re: Clustering and replication options - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ed L.
Subject Re: Clustering and replication options
Date
Msg-id 200506221218.26471.pgsql@bluepolka.net
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In response to Clustering and replication options  (Gregory Youngblood <pgcluster@netio.org>)
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On Wednesday June 22 2005 2:16 am, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
> I am looking for some information about clustering and
> replication options for postgresql.

Gregory,

FWIW, I've used Slony 1.0.5 for 10-15 db cluster migrations,
usually from 7.3.4 clusters on one box to 7.4.6 clusters on
another (slony is asyncronous master-slave).  That has typically
involved running slony for anywhere from a few hours to a few
days.  Where a dump and reload has required several hours of
downtime, slony has allowed us to cutover in a matter of a
minute or three.  We've also successfully used a perl version of
dbmirror, also asyncronous master-slave.

I'd be very interested in hearing what syncronous multi-master
replication solutions you find for pgsql.  I haven't kept up,
but I'm not aware of any that are still alive.  The one using
Spread and Ensemble ("Postgres R"?) appears dormant as of 7.2.

Ed



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