> -----Original Message----- > From: Evan Rempel [mailto:erempel@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 1:12 PM > To: Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA) > Cc: Chris Hoover; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Admin > Subject: Re: Question about multiple slaves and Master loss. > > Can you have a slave of a slave? > > Basically set up > > A --> B --> C > also > A --> D --> E > > if A goes down, promote B which is protected by C > If B goes down, D is your protection for A > If C goes down, who cares. > > It takes 5 machines, but would give great protection. > That's called cascaded replication. It's not currently supported, but coming in 9.2 I believe. Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
