From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: replica of database
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:19:13 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10809111119gc3c076bo77e06f12eb4982f9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
> jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake") writes:
>> Aftab Alam wrote:
>>> Yes ,I want a replica of my db so that I can use it as failover
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Version 7.3 linux AS release 4 update 6
>>
>> Version 7.3 is end of life and I don't know of *any* of the
>> replication technologies that will work with it.
>
> Slony-I version 1.1 can still work with 7.3. We ceased support of 7.3
> when we released v1.2, but recommended, at the time, using 1.1 for
> 7.3-compatibility.
>
And as buggy as slony 1.0 might have been, I ran it for about 2 years
in production replicating a HUGE amount of data daily with zero
failures. Of course, the servers were fast and reliable, so that might
have helped cover a lot of issues other people had for us.
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