Re: 100% failover + replication solution

["Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com>]

There is this project which actually is not released yet, but something that you want to achieve :)

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpitrha

Regards,
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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 10/30/06, Ben Suffolk < ben(at)vanilla(dot)net> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I have been thinking about this and wanted to see if it can be
> achived. I wanted to make a 100% failover solution for my postgres
> databases. The first thing that comes to my mind is doing it using
> WAL logs. Am attaching the diagram for which i will write more here.

While its not the solution you were looking at, have you seen
PGCluser :-

http://pgcluster.projects.postgresql.org/index.html

I have not tried it, but was looking the other week at various fail-
over type solutions and came across it. It seems to be able to do
what you want.

Ben






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