On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:22, Peter Murray & Uta Wussing wrote: > I have some postgres cluster questions: > > I would like to have the ability to dynamically re-size a cluster of > Postgres DB instances. > > > 0. Can I create a Postgres cluster? > - more than one instance of Postgres running on more than 1 cpu acting > as a single instance of postgres to process work. i.e. 1 pg/cpu > > 1. start postgres on another box > 2. have it added to the cluster and have it start processing work for > it. > 3. have the instance stop processing work and remove the instance from > the cluster There is no such software currently existent for postgresql that I know of. There are pieces of software that, with the watchful eye of a competent dba can do most of what you ask, but there's no "push a button take a banana" interface / implementation.