Mikael.Carneholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Mikael Carneholm") writes: >>"Built In" Failover/Clustering > >>This won't happen. The community stance, which is a good one is that >>no single replication solutions fits everyone's needs and therefore >>we rely out the outside sources. Slony-I, Mammoth Replicator and >>pgpool being the most popular. > > Too bad - I think that will keep a lot of potential users from > evaluating Pg as a serious alternative. Good or bad, decide for > yourself :) Why on earth should that be? What serious alternative to PostgreSQL actually includes built-in failover or clustering? For Oracle, it is a separate add-on product licensed separately. Ditto for DB2. The same is likely the case for Informix and others. -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "acm.org") http://cbbrowne.com/info/x.html "Let's face it -- ASCII text is a far richer medium than most of us deserve." -- Scott McNealy