Version 8.3 has pg_standby.  Does anyone know how well that works for failover?

--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From: Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] replica of database
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Aftab Alam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Vishal Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 12:22 AM

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Aftab Alam wrote:
>>
>> Yes ,I want a replica of my db so that I can use it as failover
>>
>>
>> Version 7.3 linux AS release 4 update 6
>
> Version 7.3 is end of life and I don't know of *any* of the
replication
> technologies that will work with it.

I think older versions of slony can talk to it, but I'd only use that
to upgrade in place to 8.3.  I'm pretty sure you'd have to make a stop
at 8.0 or 8.1 along the way...

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