On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:44:35AM -0400, Mark Steben wrote:
> We’re running postgres 8.3.11.  Do you have any recommendations
> Using a physical server for the master and a vm server for the only slave?
> Are there any restrictions / potential gotchas I should be ware of?

Test -- really, really test -- the I/O capacity of your vmware target.
My previous (now aged) tests in this area suggested to me that there
was a very serious penalty.  Slony systems are almost always I/O bound
when they get into trouble.

Other than that, it's just another box, AFAICT.

A


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