On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 10:21 -0400, Chander Ganesan wrote: > It's not too hard to put together a "warm standby" synchronous > replication mechanism with overhead that isn't too much more than what > you incur by enabling PITR... Such systems can also have very fast > failover on failure detection (via heartbeat2), and be synchronous. Do you have any performance measurements of either the replication overhead or the failover time? I'm interested in how well we cope with high transaction rates. Thanks. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com