In response to Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>:
> > > Cons:
> > - No reliability. On slow days, WAL logs could take a long time to
> > rotate, so small but important transactions might not be replicated
> > for a long time.
>
> That's gone with 8.2, it will be possible to stream the last
> modifications, or force a WAL recycle periodically, whatever fits you
> better. There is some new infrastructure which allows these things,
> although I didn't have the time to play with them.
>
> The big improvement would be indeed to have the infrastructure to start
> up a standby by simply pointing it to the master server, no other setup
> needed. Implement that, make it reliable, and any beginner to postgres
> will be able to easily set up a WAL shipping based standby. Right now
> you still have to do some complicated scripting to make it work (no idea
> how much 8.2 will help here, didn't try yet).
That will be some neat stuff. I didn't know that was coming up.
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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.