There is more to this issue than whether you can hire a third party consulting company to come in and tune your database to your specific queries. Now that of course is a good idea but replication arrays and traffic shaping bring more benefits than just throughput. Hot consistent backups, MIS queries, automatic failover, disaster recovery, etc. are all benefits that companies need. I looked into pgcluster and some of the other projects for replication on postgresql. Frankly, most of these are only half-baked and a number of them have been abandoned or near abandoned. I even notice that there is a lot of moaning in the forums about the state of postgresql replication. You do not find this with MySQL Replication or Oracle RAC. This main part of the issue is that most companies would like to take advantage of those assets that they have already put into place with regard to database and other things such as existing replication. And that is why you see so many hits on this thread.
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