From fdbe9facdcbaa4ae0507aa177702bf5c4e28e5ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian Last updated: Mon Oct 9 20:28:14 EDT 2006 Last updated: Sat Oct 14 19:08:19 EDT 2006 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
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(irc.freenode.net). To connect you can use the Unix
program Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- irc -c '#postgresql' "$USER" irc.freenode.net
or use any other IRC clients. A Spanish one also exists
- on the same network, (#postgresql-es), and a French one,
- (#postgresqlfr). There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.
A list of commercial support companies is available at @@ -963,7 +964,7 @@ length being duplicated. PostgreSQL uses OIDs to link its internal system tables together.
-To uniquely number columns in user tables, it is best to use +
To uniquely number rows in user tables, it is best to use SERIAL rather than OIDs because SERIAL sequences are unique only within a single table. and are therefore less likely to overflow. @@ -1077,7 +1078,7 @@ length
Multi-master replication allows read/write queries to be sent to multiple replicated computers. This capability also has a severe impact on performance due to the need to synchronize changes between servers. - Pgcluster is the + PGCluster is the most popular such solution freely available for PostgreSQL.
There are also commercial and hardware-based replication solutions -- cgit v1.2.3