The Hot Standby feature is in the recently-released PostgreSQL 8.5alpha3, and what it means is that you can have a read/write master and several read-only slave

The Hot Standby feature is in the recently-released PostgreSQL 8.5alpha3, and what it means is that you can have a read/write master and several read-only slaves; if the master goes down, you can start switch one of the slaves to be the new master without a restart. For more information, see the development-version documentation: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/hot-standby.html http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/hot-standby....