Back before PostgreSQL Conference West, there was a poll. That poll was replication. Here are the results. There were 367 respondents. Have fun with it!
| Q | responses | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In what waydo you use PostgreSQL? | |||||||||
| Development Only | 72 | |||||||||
| As a hobby (or personaldevelopment) | 106 | |||||||||
| Professionally | 325 | |||||||||
| 2 | What versionof PostgreSQL are you running? | |||||||||
| 8.3 | 117 | |||||||||
| 9.0 | 175 | |||||||||
| 8.2 | 50 | |||||||||
| 8.1 | 36 | |||||||||
| 8.4 | 251 | |||||||||
| 3 | Do you use or plan to use replication? | |||||||||
| No | 72 | |||||||||
| Yes | 193 | |||||||||
| Once I upgrade to 9.x | 102 | |||||||||
| 4 | What type of replication do you use? | |||||||||
| Londiste | 10 | |||||||||
| Slony | 73 | |||||||||
| Streaming Replication | 113 | |||||||||
| Bucardo | 15 | |||||||||
| Hot Standby | 90 | |||||||||
| Home Grown / Custom | 34 | |||||||||
| DRBD | 17 | |||||||||
| 5 | If you don't use replication, why? | |||||||||
| Backups are enough for me | 51 | |||||||||
| Costs are too high (need more than one server) | 17 | |||||||||
| It is a pain in the butt | 56 | |||||||||
| Not a business requirement | 48 | |||||||||