On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:19:57PM +0200, Hannes Dorbath wrote: > 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. It does, AFAIK, if yuo configure it properly. I think it's the "protocol" parameter you need to set to C which is the slowest, but it's the only one that waits for the block to hit *both* disks. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
