PostgreSQL with master -> multiple slaves. What to use?

> The only reason we're not going with MySQL is I seem to be told everywhere that it's not as fault tollerent > as Postgres, however nobody has given me an explanation why.

I am not to sure how innodb compares since most of the Fault tolerant comparisons I've seen were were against MyISAM.

Basically the "pull the power cord" test is given as a test case where your server is un-expectingly halted.  Barring that no hardward fails as a result of the power loss, Postgres ensures that all transactions <including ddl in the transaction> will either be fully committed or fully rolled back.  Some other database brands "may" leave the database in an in-consistent state where some open transactions are partially applied to the database.  Also, postgres has developed the reputation of not crashing under heavy load although it also has/had the reputation of being slower than the composition.  
If mysql ever had a reputation of crashing, I am pretty sure it was only the older versions that had this problem.  Also, if postgresql had a reputation of being slow, the newer versions have certainly improved in the bench marks for speed.

Take a look at EnterpriseDB.  They have both a supported distribution of PostgreSQL as well as an extended product that boasts both a high degree of Oracle compatibility as well as built in replication.

If your organization both needs and is willing to pay for the level of fault tolerance you are proposing, it is worthwhile to look at commercially supported products to do it.

Regards,
Bill

Slony will certainly do what you're looking for.  I've also looked at EnterpriseDB, and it has more capabilities than does Slony, including multi-master and load sharing capabilities, but these additional features weren't specified. From what I've seen, they do have good PostgreSQL support.

MySQL's reputation has been in the area of raw speed, however this is misleading.  When MySQL is using InnoDB tables (as close as "apples-to-apples" as they can do, in terms of ACID support, there is not a lot of speed difference between the two.  And, as the number of simultaneous connections and workload increase, PostgreSQL's performance soon outshine MySQL.  Take a look at this on-line article by tweakers.net: http://tweakers.net/reviews/657   The article describes testing, intended as a hardware test of various multicore servers.  They used MySQL 4, MySQL 5, and PostgreSQL 8.1 beta.   The results are enightening.