On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 12:49 -0500, Josh Harrison wrote:
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> On Dec 27, 2007 12:37 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 10:49:10AM -0500, Josh Harrison wrote:
> > Hi,
> > We are trying to use slony and WAL shipping for warm standby
> for replication
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> It's unusual to use both. Any reason you want to?
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> We wanted to have 1 master and 1 slave that can be queried and 1 warm
> standby server that can be brought up in case of crash. So I thought
> it might be better to have WAL shipping for warm standby since thats
> working pretty good and Slony for master-slave replication.
> Let me know your comments on this setup? What is better for this
> setup?
That's a setup I've recommended in the past.
It's like using RAC and Data Guard together, which is also common.
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Simon Riggs
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