Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: slony-I

[Karsten Hilbert]

> >Is slony some sort of clustering parallelizing thing to speed up a server ?
> >
> >No, it is a single-master replication engine. The best one,
> >so far.
> >
> What's the difference between clustering and single-master replication ?
The difference isn't in the clustering aspect (whatever that
is supposed to mean) but in the parallelizing. Slony-I isn't
parallelizing access to a PG database. It is merely
replicating it to slaves. To my knowledge it does not support
reads from (let alone writes to) the slaves. I may be wrong,
though. Eg. it is not load-balancing.

Karsten
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