Carlos,
Streaming replication was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.0 and should do
what you want.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication
On 11/04/2011 11:47 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> We had a 8.4.8 production server of PostgreSQL on a Dell blade server
> which ran for 3 years fine. The server housed all our database needs
> perfectly but sadly the entire machine died. The drives were dead and
> the motherboard was fried but we did have daily full backups of the
> entire machine. Today I received our new blade servers which will run
> VMware& I get to create two new PostgreSQL servers. I wanted to make
> a master database server and a slave in case the master dies. My
> question is does PostgreSQL 8.4 or 9.1support synchronization between
> two physical machines over Ethernet? I've never replicated any kind of
> database before so I don't know if that's possible and the more I
> search this on my own, the more confused I am. It appears in
> PostgreSQL, the word "replication" has several different meanings.
>
> If you had to stand up two individual Debian Linux servers running a
> specific version of PostgreSQL, could / would you be able to have the
> master also synchronize all data to a slave server?
>
> Thanks for any info!
>