[dev] Split read/write database

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael Menge <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we want to use split read/write database with postgres. At the moment
>> the splitread option is only available for MySQL.
>> Is there a reason that this is not supported for Postgres?
>
> Does Postgres support master-slave setups?
>

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/high-availability.html

>> We use unix sockets to acces the the database. As far as i  
>> understand the configuration for mysql it is only possible to use  
>> unix sockets for the write
>> database but not for the read. Is there a reason for this?
>
> I can't imagine one.
>



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