> In contrast, the PostgreSQL team has chosen to provide hooks for
> replication and failover. This has led to a situation where there are
> multiple projects supporting replications/failover, none of which are
> production-ready nor shipped in a modern Linux distro.
And no, we don't really provide hooks :). However there are several
projects trying to solve different problems with PostgreSQL.
>
> Modern systems *must* scale beyond a single computer, and the PostgreSQL
> support shipped in modern Linux distros is completely incapable of this.
Slony-I is quite capable as a production class FOSS replication system
and is in use widely.
Joshua D. Drake
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