Hello,
> Third idea: > I install the Slony-I, linux-ha and postgresql on the same server of > the two 2U servers. The web application access to the db server > directly and without pgpool.
AFAIK, Slony does not have failover capabilities you need in HA solution: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/genpage.php?howto_overview So you will need pgpool layer (or some other connection manager + network monitoring software) to detect failures anyway. Regards, Ivan Zolotukhin