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23rd December 2009 - Link Blog

PostgreSQL 8.5alpha3 now available. “Hot Standby, allowing read-only connections during recovery, provides a built-in master-slave replication solution.” Woohoo!

Posted 23rd December 2009 at 9:57 am

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