Re: Postgres Cluster

Hi Rajiv, postgres does not support Active-Active approach but through
redhat/sun clustering u can achieve Active-Passive functionality.

Regd,
Deepak Tyagi

On 2/4/11, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Rajiv Dhawan <rajivengineer(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does Postgres supports Clustering like Oracle RAC in Active/Passive
>> Mode.e.q
>> 2 systems with Linux installed and PostgresDB on SAN ?
>>
>
> Postgres does not natively support Oracle RAC kind of setup. There is
> something known an Hot Standby which supports read-write access on one
> system and read-only access to a replicated system. But the database
> is not shared between these nodes, rather is replicated using
> techniques such as streaming replication.
>
> Thanks,
> Pavan
>
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