Re: PostgreSql replication and load balancing ( is Slony-I a solution?)

> On 5/1/07, Jan Bilek <bilekj(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Is Slony-I capable of load balancing and how to set it up? We searched
>> the
>> web and some people mentioned that Slony-I could do load balancing, but
>> haven't found how to make Slony-I to do it.
>
> Slony does not do load balancing. Personally, I recommend doing the
> load balancing in the application if possible; you will need to funnel
> updates to the master and distribute queries to the slaves, and the
> app is in the best position to determine whether something is an
> update or a query. Any intermediate middleware is going to add
> additional latency and overhead and will add just another single point
> of failure to an already complex system.
>
> Alexander.

Thanks for info.