Jump to: navigation , search start content BDR stands for B i D irectional R eplication. This page discusses the BDR development project. If you're looking for the user/admin documentation, see BDR User Guide . Design work began in late 2011 to look at ways of adding new features to PostgreSQL core to support a flexible new infrastructure for replication that built upon and enhanced the existing streaming replication features added in 9.1-9.2. Initial design and project planning was by Simon Riggs; implementation lead is now Andres Freund, both from 2ndQuadrant . Various additional development contributions from the wider 2ndQuadrant team as well as reviews and input from other community devs. At the PgCon2012CanadaInCoreReplicationMeeting an inital version of the design was presented. A presentation containing reasons leading to the current design and a prototype of it...