Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5A764FFEC for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:04:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17929-08 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:04:38 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EAC64FCFF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:04:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from commandprompt.com (CPE001b63afe888-CM001adea9c5a6.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.236.211.160]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7LL7aTI015368 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:07:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:04:36 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: The state of PG replication in 2008/Q2? Message-ID: <20080821210435.GN307@commandprompt.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Sullivan , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <48ADABAF.8030602@drivefaster.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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]); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:07:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.899 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FS_REPLICA=1.179, SARE_SPEC_REPLICA=0.72 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 200808/261 X-Sequence-Number: 31142 On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:53:05PM +0200, Mathias Stjernström wrote: > For Master-Slave replication i think that Slony http://www.slony.info/ is > most up to date. But it does not support DDL changes. This isn't quite true. It supports DDL; it just doesn't support it in the normal way, and is broken by applications doing DDL as part of the regular operation. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@commandprompt.com +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/