Oh yeah, I too have written my own shell scripts for log shipping and failover some time 6-8 years ago when I was still using PostgreSQL 8.4. But talking about

Oh yeah, I too have written my own shell scripts for log shipping and failover some time 6-8 years ago when I was still using PostgreSQL 8.4. But talking about this in a comparison makes about as much sense as bringing up MyISAM related issues.