On 17.08.2007 15:59, Tom Lane wrote:
On the other side of the coin, I have little confidence in DRBD providing the storage semantics we need (in particular guaranteeing write ordering). So that path doesn't sound exactly risk-free either.
To my understanding DRBD provides this. I think a discussion about that with the DRBD developers would be very useful for many users searching for a solution to replicate PostgreSQL, so I'm cross posting this to DRBD list. Maybe you can make clear in detail what requirements PostgreSQL has.
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