Brad Nicholson wrote: > It totally depends on your enviornment. We use Slony in a 24x7x365 > production enviornment. Usage requires that you know what your doing, > and fair amount of care and planning when using it. But Slony was > never designed with the intent of being a click and forget type system. > > If you have environement where the schema is not stable, replicating > with Slony will likely take a lot of work, but can be done safely. If > you don't have control over your schema changes (ie a web hosting > environement where the end user can change the schema), it's certainly > out of the picture. In that scenario, I think you're going to have a > hard time finding a replication engine that will let you have a hot > standyby. Seems such a case should use xlog shipping and loading into a hot standby, which we don't support yet. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
