On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:04 +0200, Javier de la Torre wrote: > I am working right now in an strategy to improve the performance on my > server. The situation is this: > > I have a very large database that it is only update once a month, but > when is updated I have to process a lot of things on the data to > create caches, aditional tables, etc. > > The processing of the data can take up to 2 days in my machine so I > was considering the following strategy. > > I have another machine that takes the new data, process it and when is > done I replace the files from the production server with the ones of > the processing server. > Start out here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html You might also look into Slony-I: http://www.slony.info Do those seem like they will solve your problem? Regards, Jeff Davis
