> But I find a surprisingly high fraction of applications are very amenable to > being handled as insert-only. A medical application strikes me as something > someone is all the more likely to be happy with an insert-only model. Yes, I work in the medical field, and use my own home-grown (predates Slony) replication system to maintain an offsite near-real-time backup server. The fact that most of my data is insert only greatly simplifies things. -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 665-7007 voice ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq