Yes, that’s right, the PostgreSQL team is planning to add built in replication. This has come, in part, do to the demand of replication solutions, and the lack of easy-to-setup, easy-to-maintain replication for PostgreSQL. Many projects have moved to MySQL, simply because developers don’t want to deal with the headaches of Slony-I or PGCluster.

The features are planned to ship with PostgreSQL 8.4, however, do to technical issues, read-only queries to slaves may not be ready until 8.5.

This is going to be a huge leap for PostgreSQL.

The full announcement is on the PostgreSQL mailing list.

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