Re: replication only

Started by Henryover 17 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Henry
henry@zen.co.za

On Tue, August 5, 2008 9:21 am, Jef Peeraer wrote:

i read about the replication possibilities with postgresql. If i just need
some replication ( without failover stuff ) to 1 standby server, what
would be the best option to go with. Slony i presume, although schema
chanages are not propagated.

Skytools (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/skytools/) has a considerably
lower learning curve compared to Slony. Nothing wrong with Slony, but
recovering from replication problems with skytools is far easier, and it's
just much simpler to use -- not as flexible and as powerful as Slony, but
if all you need to do is replicate some tables with minimum fuss and
without having to learn a new language, then Skytools (based on my
personal experience with a cluster and Slony versus Skytools) is my
recommendation.

Regards
Henry

#2Andrew Sullivan
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In reply to: Henry (#1)

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:03:19AM +0200, Henry wrote:

just much simpler to use -- not as flexible and as powerful as Slony, but
if all you need to do is replicate some tables with minimum fuss and
without having to learn a new language, then Skytools (based on my
personal experience with a cluster and Slony versus Skytools) is my
recommendation.

This is probably good advice. For simple cases, Slony's sort of a
pain in the neck.

A

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