> Bruce Momjian <pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Martin Fandel wrote: > >> is DRDB (http://www.drbd.org/) a recommended > replication-solution for > >> PostgreSQL? I asked some PostgreSQL-People and DRDB-People on the > >> Linux-Tag in germany. But I'm not very assured about this solution. > > > Uh, we really don't _recommend_ replication solutions. However, I > > will say I have heard of Slony, but never of DRDB. It seems DRDB > > replicates the file system blocks to another machine. (Um, Bruce, we talked to Alan Robertson about this in Copenhagen a couple of months back. So you've certainly *heard* of it :P) > I have not probed further than the site's top page, but > unless DRBD offers some pretty strong guarantees about > physical write order on the master being duplicated on the > slave, it won't work reliably for Postgres.
