Clustering with PostgreSQL?

Started by Bob McCormickalmost 25 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Bob McCormick
bobm@rwmccormick.com

All,

I'm wondering if PostgreSQL is capable of being setup in a clustering
configuration like one can setup for MSSQL server? We are seriously
considering a move to PostgreSQL, but this is probably the only item I
haven't seen available. We are setting up an ASP-based website and need to
have a seriously fault tolerant backend in place.

Any thoughts or comments regarding the 'appropriate' or 'recommended' type
of configuration for such a system would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...Bobbo ;-)

Bob McCormick
Intuitive Software Technology

#2Marc Wrubleski
mlwruble@sorexsoftware.com
In reply to: Bob McCormick (#1)
Re: Clustering with PostgreSQL?

There is no inherent clustering or replication built into postgres yet. Version
7.2 promises replication on various levels.

For fault tolerance, I am sucessfully using drbd and heartbeat to failover
machines.

see http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/

Marc Wrubleski

Bob McCormick wrote:

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All,

I'm wondering if PostgreSQL is capable of being setup in a clustering
configuration like one can setup for MSSQL server? We are seriously
considering a move to PostgreSQL, but this is probably the only item I
haven't seen available. We are setting up an ASP-based website and need to
have a seriously fault tolerant backend in place.

Any thoughts or comments regarding the 'appropriate' or 'recommended' type
of configuration for such a system would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...Bobbo ;-)

Bob McCormick
Intuitive Software Technology

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#3Dan Harrington
dan@harringtons.net
In reply to: Marc Wrubleski (#2)
RE: Clustering with PostgreSQL?

And is there a semi-scheduled release for 7.2?

:-)
Clustering would be awesome, if not imperative.

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Marc Wrubleski
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 1:20 PM
To: Bob McCormick
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Clustering with PostgreSQL?

There is no inherent clustering or replication built into postgres
yet. Version
7.2 promises replication on various levels.

For fault tolerance, I am sucessfully using drbd and heartbeat to failover
machines.

see http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/

Marc Wrubleski

Bob McCormick wrote:

All,

I'm wondering if PostgreSQL is capable of being setup in a clustering
configuration like one can setup for MSSQL server? We are seriously
considering a move to PostgreSQL, but this is probably the only item I
haven't seen available. We are setting up an ASP-based website and need to
have a seriously fault tolerant backend in place.

Any thoughts or comments regarding the 'appropriate' or 'recommended' type
of configuration for such a system would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...Bobbo ;-)

Bob McCormick
Intuitive Software Technology

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