On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 12:49 -0500, Josh Harrison wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 2007 12:37 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 10:49:10AM -0500, Josh Harrison wrote: > > Hi, > > We are trying to use slony and WAL shipping for warm standby > for replication > > > It's unusual to use both. Any reason you want to? > > We wanted to have 1 master and 1 slave that can be queried and 1 warm > standby server that can be brought up in case of crash. So I thought > it might be better to have WAL shipping for warm standby since thats > working pretty good and Slony for master-slave replication. > Let me know your comments on this setup? What is better for this > setup? That's a setup I've recommended in the past. It's like using RAC and Data Guard together, which is also common. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend