Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
Date: 2008-05-29 18:05:12
Message-ID: 483EF058.7040408@agliodbs.com
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Josh,

> What does this give us that Solaris Cluster, RedHat Cluster, DRBD etc..
> doesn't give us?

Actually, these solutions all have some serious drawbacks, not the least
of which is difficult administration (I speak from bitter personal
experience). Also, most of them require installation at the filesystem
level, something which often isn't available in a hosted environment.

--Josh Berkus

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