While "clustering" in some circles may be an open-ended buzzword -- mainly the commercial DB marketing crowd -- there are concepts beneath the bull that are even inherent in the name. However, I understand your point.
>From what I've researched, the concepts and practices seem to fall under one of two abstract categorizations: fail-over (ok... high-availability), and parallel execution (high-performance... sure). While some consider the implementation of only one of these to qualify a cluster, others seem to demand that a "true" cluster must implement both. What I'm really after is a DB setup that does fail-over and parallel execution. Your setup sounds like it would gracefully handle the former, but cannot achieve the latter. Perhaps I'm simply asking too much of a free software setup. Thanks for your response. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org