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It should also be noted that Afilias, which manages .org, .info, .mobi (and more), uses PostgreSQL.

So PostgreSQL is pretty heavily involved in internet infrastructure right now.

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As it has been. Is this an under-documented fact?

What version, configuration, hardware, do they use replication and how?

Me to having worked for a registry ICANS requirements for up time and availability are "challenging"

Would be very interesting to see how they setup PostgreSQL to support HA

I just remember reading that the .org TLD was running on Postgres ten plus years ago. Yahoo knows a thing or two about scaling up on Postgres as well, as I recall. When these decisions were made, it was generally expected that one would have quite a lot of work to do, regardless.

Makes me wonder how much hacking of postgres source code it required.

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