Re: [Slony1-general] Any big slony and WAL shipping users?

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Harrison <joshques(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, slony1-general(at)lists(dot)slony(dot)info, General postgres mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Slony1-general] Any big slony and WAL shipping users?
Date: 2007-12-27 19:27:34
Message-ID: 1198783654.4221.355.camel@ebony.site
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On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 12:49 -0500, Josh Harrison wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 27, 2007 12:37 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 10:49:10AM -0500, Josh Harrison wrote:
> > Hi,
> > We are trying to use slony and WAL shipping for warm standby
> for replication
>
>
> It's unusual to use both. Any reason you want to?
>
> We wanted to have 1 master and 1 slave that can be queried and 1 warm
> standby server that can be brought up in case of crash. So I thought
> it might be better to have WAL shipping for warm standby since thats
> working pretty good and Slony for master-slave replication.
> Let me know your comments on this setup? What is better for this
> setup?

That's a setup I've recommended in the past.

It's like using RAC and Data Guard together, which is also common.

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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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