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FAQ updates --- This is a small cosmetic patch that adds pt_BR IRC

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channel to the lists of IRC channels, fixes a typo in the OID's
question, and corrects the PGCluster's project name.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
Last updated: Mon Oct 9 20:28:14 EDT 2006
Last updated: Sat Oct 14 19:08:19 EDT 2006
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
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The major IRC channel is #postgresql on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).
To connect you can use the Unix program irc -c '#postgresql' "$USER"
irc.freenode.net or use any other IRC clients. A Spanish one also
exists on the same network, (#postgresql-es), and a French one,
(#postgresqlfr). There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.
exists on the same network, (#postgresql-es), a French one,
(#postgresqlfr), and a Brazilian one, (#postgresql-br). There is also
a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.
A list of commercial support companies is available at
http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support.
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overflow at 4 billion, and then the OIDs start being duplicated.
PostgreSQL uses OIDs to link its internal system tables together.
To uniquely number columns in user tables, it is best to use SERIAL
To uniquely number rows in user tables, it is best to use SERIAL
rather than OIDs because SERIAL sequences are unique only within a
single table. and are therefore less likely to overflow. SERIAL8 is
available for storing eight-byte sequence values.
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Multi-master replication allows read/write queries to be sent to
multiple replicated computers. This capability also has a severe
impact on performance due to the need to synchronize changes between
servers. Pgcluster is the most popular such solution freely available
servers. PGCluster is the most popular such solution freely available
for PostgreSQL.
There are also commercial and hardware-based replication solutions