Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB4A2E0053 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:23:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89875-02 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:23:49 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 006022E0052 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:23:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from commandprompt.com (227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net [209.222.54.227]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3SGOQ2x014620 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:24:29 -0700 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:23:45 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Replication Syatem Message-ID: <20080428162344.GO2970@commandprompt.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Sullivan , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <7e4ba9550804280638ie81dc23w472785c83cd38fcf@mail.gmail.com> <7e4ba9550804280705q43c51e66l104a5ff9272bbd4d@mail.gmail.com> <4815DC4C.9060509@quietcaresystems.com> <7e4ba9550804280718g175000bcj97118c96d4072ec0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7e4ba9550804280718g175000bcj97118c96d4072ec0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:24:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.553 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=-1.346, FS_REPLICA=1.179, SARE_SPEC_REPLICA=0.72 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200804/401 X-Sequence-Number: 29894 On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:48:48PM +0530, Gauri Kanekar wrote: > Slony don't do automatic failover. And we would appreciate a system with > automatic failover :( No responsible asynchronous system will give you automatic failover. You can lose data that way. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@commandprompt.com +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/