For the third year in a row, GTAlug will be hosting LITP in Bickford Park (across from linuxcaffe) and will be enjoying the day with BBQ, refreshments and geeky chatter.

Special Feature

We'll also be having a short talk on TCCP, a non-profit colocation
project in the GTA.

Main Topic

Slony-I Replication for PostgreSQL

Speakers

Christopher Browne

Description

Slony-I is an asynchronous replication system for PostgreSQL supporting
multiple replicas "fed" by a single master. Special capabilities include
the ability to shift the master node (to support maintenance), to
abandon the master in favor of a replica in case of failure, as well as
to add additional replica nodes.

Essential topics covered include:

* What is Slony-I?
* What are the sorts of use cases where it works well? Where is