Since Streaming Replication and pg_basebackup was introduced in PostgreSQL; I generally wouldn't. MariaDB 10 and onwards has some fun features though if you ar

Since Streaming Replication and pg_basebackup was introduced in PostgreSQL; I generally wouldn't. MariaDB 10 and onwards has some fun features though if you are stuck with it. The CONNECT and TokuDB storage engines are very useful and interesting. Parallel, Multi-source, and GTID replication with multiple domains is very easy.