Re: Clustering for performance and fail over

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:30:24AM -0400, Stan Leung wrote:
> I am interested in know if anyone has set up clustering for performance and fail over using PostgreSQL.  We are currently using Oracle for a distribution application and would like to use PostgreSQL with multiple application and database servers.  

Yes, we've done failover stuff using a shared storage, heartbeat, etc.
several times. For performance I prefer to divide the data to different
failover clustered database systems because concurrent writing creates
some huge technical overhead in many cases.

Michael
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