Re: pg replication tools?

Clinging to sanity, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com ("Joshua D. Drake") mumbled into her beard:
> sarlav kumar wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Which is the best available PG replication tool in market now?
>
> There is no "best", there is only best for your situation. The two
> most supported are:
>
>
>> * Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator * Slony-I
>>
>> Which one of these is a good option for replicating Postgres 7.3.2?
>>
>
> Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator will automatically upgrade you to
> 7.3.8 which you should be running anyway.
>
> I believe Slony will work with 7.3.2.

No, it won't.

I believe there was something about namespace support that did not
stabilize until PostgreSQL 7.3.3, and Slony-I works with that version,
at the earliest.

And you're quite right; "best" is a slippery metric. Like many
things, it may be altered by perspective.
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