>Hi,
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>I am currently investigating the preferred method of clustering a postgresql database on Redhat?
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>i would really appreciate some suggestions or experiences you guys have had.
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>note: performance & redundancy are both equally desirable and i have plenty of resources.
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>we already have licences for Redhat Enterprise Linux ES v4, i was wondering if Redhat's >Cluster Manager is a candidate? ~ or if either PGCluster or Slony1 have >advantages or drawbacks etc.
Couple of months ago, when I started looking at replication, and clustering I saw this as a fairly basic question, but the more I got into it the more I realized there's clustering, clustering and clustering, and replication, replication and replication.
I dont think anyone can give you a prefered method, not without a system spec.
I looked at Slony, even tried to help debug it on windows, and eventually realised its Master Slave arrangement would not work for me.
I looked at dBMirror, which I liked in concept but I didnt fancy the way the code was done in a project that seems to be dead.
Then I looked at some really weird and wonderful schemes that work on a core technology like a reliable message queue, not for me.
In the end I decided I wanted real time synchronous multi master replication, without conflict resolution, and that I didnt really want a dBCluster, I needed to cluster and load balance at web level, allowing for things like session management, multiple clusters, and remote sites.
Bad news is I couldnt find it, not for free anyway.
Please keep in mind, its new and written by a novice out of desparation, not one of the community super geeks, but it takes a very pragmatic approach to replication and maybe just what the doctor ordered.... Good Luck.