| From: | Ow Mun Heng <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Read-only availability of a standby server? |
| Date: | 2008-01-03 01:04:39 |
| Message-ID: | 1199322279.4569.6.camel@neuromancer.home.net |
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On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:33 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:20:51PM -0800, Garber, Mikhail wrote:
>
> > In the high-availabilty situation with a warm standby, is it possible (or
> > planned) to be able to make standby readable?
>
> Yes, but it won't happen for 8.3. It's a feature you can have today with
> Slony, by the way.
Slony provides the _means_ for it to be a standby-read-only server, but
it _does_ not provide a way for load balancing the queries, (which is
what I really want anyway) The only way to do that is through another
app like LVS / pgpool or even coding it directly into the frontend app.
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