WAL-log shipping was released with Postgres 8.4, so there is now native replication very similar to binary-log shipping. I don't know for sure if it's 100% as g

WAL-log shipping was released with Postgres 8.4, so there is now native replication very similar to binary-log shipping. I don't know for sure if it's 100% as good, and what the drawbacks may be to replication through this system, but AFAIK, it's supposed to be pretty much the same thing.