Re: DRDB? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: DRDB?
Date
Msg-id 200506272352.j5RNqN615477@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: DRDB?  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Martin Fandel wrote:
> > >> is DRDB (http://www.drbd.org/) a recommended
> > replication-solution for
> > >> PostgreSQL? I asked some PostgreSQL-People and DRDB-People on the
> > >> Linux-Tag in germany. But I'm not very assured about this solution.
> >
> > > Uh, we really don't _recommend_ replication solutions.  However, I
> > > will say I have heard of Slony, but never of DRDB.  It seems DRDB
> > > replicates the file system blocks to another machine.
>
> (Um, Bruce, we talked to Alan Robertson about this in Copenhagen a
> couple of months back. So you've certainly *heard* of it :P)

Oh, that was it.  Yea, I remember now!

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