Am Montag, den 01.08.2005, 18:44 +0200 schrieb Vratislav_Morkus@xxxxxx: > Hi all, > I am sorry for a stupid easy question, but I'am PostgreSQL novice. > Our development team has encountered problem with trying to install and > maintain cluster (pgcluster) on our production database. So they have > decided to switch the entire solution to MySql database. > a) have you got any good/bad experience with administering and running > cluster on PostrgeSQL DB? > b) would u switch PostgreSQL to MySql (7.4 --> 4.1) and why? Usually only a few installations need a cluster solution anyway. Did you try with optimized queries and a single machine postgres? You have online backup too so you dont need a cluster for this functionality. If it turns out you have to distribute load somehow, there is slony and pgpool. Regards Tino Wildenhain ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend