A little while ago I posted about PostgreSQL clustering and I said that I was going to evaluate HA-JDBC as an option. The reason I wanted to use HA-JDBC is that I was looking for a no-coding required solution for seamless fail over. (Similar to Oracle RAC) for PostgreSQL. I’ll be using a Shared Disk [...]

Now that I’ve got my basic active/passive cluster setup using the shared disk Linux heartbeat method mentioned

I’ve been evaluating PostgreSQL clustering options for my current project. The reason I’m looking at clustering is that the DB server will be handling a large number of users and any downtime is catastrophic. So reliability comes before any performance or administrative concerns in a clustering solution. My platform is PostgreSQL 8.3 and SLES Linux. [...]