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Re:Spilo, a Highly Available PostgreSQL Cluster by secure on Saturday October 24, 2015 @03:31PM (#10444586)
How does this compare to https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon?
Re:Spilo, a Highly Available PostgreSQL Cluster by valgog on Saturday October 24, 2015 @06:22PM (#10445086)
Actually stolon is more comparable with Patroni, the core component used by Spilo.

One can call Patroni the HA machine, and Spilo an AWS based infrastructure that uses it. So one can use Patroni for managing Postgres in your own data center.

Re:Spilo, a Highly Available PostgreSQL Cluster by mslot on Saturday October 24, 2015 @05:03PM (#10444862)
Interesting! The examples show a single master and single slave, but etcd blocks when half or more nodes die. How does Spilo deal with that?
Re:Spilo, a Highly Available PostgreSQL Cluster by tracker1 on Saturday October 24, 2015 @05:48PM (#10444982)
The examples show two nodes, but the cost sheet obviously 3x are needed. 1-Master, 2-slaves at the least...

I'd still love to see this functionality baked into PostgreSQL... having to rely on bolt-on services/proxies for this type of functionality is one of the reasons I'm less likely to consider PostgreSQL when HA are absolute requirements. Unless there's someone else whose job it is to keep it all up and running...

I'd much rather work on other things, writing software, over having to figure out N technologies in order to cobble together a viable solution. These days I'm much more inclined to reach for RethinkDB first... Though I think with a good HA story, PostgreSQL + plv8 + binary json is pretty compelling.