And Jan-Ivar, please don't think I'm saying your way is not a valid way to do things, it just requires things like read recoverable dbs via PITR or something like that. Without a read to recover separate machine for your big db you could be facing downtime measured in hours or even days. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin