FWIW, Dead-simple replication is in the current postgres beta and due to enter stable soon.

Here are the docs: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/hot-standby....

Oh, and unlike the MySQL replication this implementation can not silently lose or corrupt data.

In fact the above document could also be considered "The missing Manual for MySQL replication". It tells you all the things that MySQL doesn't take care of.