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1. provide a secondary server in as a hot standby in case of primary server failure
2. Provide 1 Primary server for inserts/updates/delete and one or more secondary servers for
reporting from selects.  I would imagine that the writing server would be optimized for heavy
writing while the reporting servers would be optimized for quick queries.  However, IIRC only the
primary server can be written to.

> also, the size of postgresql is unlimited, however,
> there *must* be a point at which performance begins to
> significantly suffer.  do we know what that point is
> on a server with modern specs?  are their ways to
> minimize this?  for example, create a cluster of pgsql
> servers to handle the load?

I'll defer this question for someone with more experience. :-)

> 
> these questions don't impact me today, but they may
> some day.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> oe1
> 
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