Subject: Re: replication solution
From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Silvio Brandani <silvio.brandani@tech.sdb.it>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:06:27 +0100
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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 15:46 +0200, Silvio Brandani wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> we are looking for a solution to create a replicated database to be used 
> as reporting database with same data of production ( we can accept a lag 
> of some minutes).
> 
> we already have the Point In Time Recovery but we need a solution where 
> the standby is  always open in  readonly  , but the data is replicated 
> continuosly from primary.
> 
> The Slony solution could be a possibility but the production database is 
> 80 Gb of data with  around 10000 transaction each hour.
> 
> DO you have some suggestion for our implementaiont if exists??

PostgreSQL 9.0 is production ready now and supports Hot Standby, which
is exactly what you want.

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