PostgreSQL Replication Options

Based on different parameters, reuirements etc you have the following popular options.

  • Block level replication – DRBD
  • PostgreSQL Streaming replication (SR)– only available 9.0 +
  • Slony Trigger based replication – Almost the gold standard for Master – Slave replication
  • Bucardo – Perl based multi master Async replication
  • pgPool- II – Load balancer, Query cache, connection pooller , Replication manager
  • pgCluster – multi-master synchronous replication

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