Re: replication for hot-standby? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: replication for hot-standby?
Date
Msg-id 200507051651.j65GpSU17913@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: replication for hot-standby?  (Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>)
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Brad Nicholson wrote:
> It totally depends on your enviornment.  We use Slony in a 24x7x365
> production enviornment.  Usage requires that you know what your doing,
> and  fair amount of care and planning when using it.  But Slony was
> never designed with the intent of being a click and forget type system.
>
> If you have environement where the schema is not stable, replicating
> with Slony will likely take a lot of work, but can be done safely.  If
> you don't have control over your schema changes (ie a web hosting
> environement where the end user can change the schema), it's certainly
> out of the picture.  In that scenario, I think you're going to have a
> hard time finding a replication engine that will let you have a hot
> standyby.

Seems such a case should use xlog shipping and loading into a hot
standby, which we don't support yet.

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