On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
> > So, my question for the list is: is Slony + log shipping the direction
> > I should be investigating, or is there something else out that I ought
> > to consider?
>
> Those are two different methods: you'd use one or the other, not both.
Slony has its own log shipping, I think that was what he was referring
to.
> Slony-I is much the more battle-tested of the two at the moment. In
> theory WAL log shipping should be higher performance for heavy-update
> scenarios, but its latency is variable (low update rate = higher
> latency), and not easy to put a bound on pre-8.2.
I'm not entirely sure how battle tested the Slony log shipping stuff
actually is.
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