<div dir="ltr">We have had the Asia-to-North-America case; it was fine, so long as we had sufficient bandwidth.<div><br></div><div>Latency wasn't great, but Slony actually copes with that quite well. </div><div><br></div>
<div>I think we had more troubles with reliability of links (e.g. - they were passing through enough intermediaries that occasionally connections would get deranged) than anything else.</div><div><br></div><div>Pre-2.2, it was crucially important for the slon servicing each node to be local, otherwise the round trip times between slon and database would be troublesome. The shift to using streaming (e.g. - copying sl_log_{1,2} around via COPY) gets rid of that particular round trip issue.</div>
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