Also, more importantly (from http://www.slony.info/documentation/slonyadmin.html):
"A WAN outage (or flakiness of the WAN in general) can leave database connections "zombied", and typical TCP/IP behaviour will allow those connections to persist, preventing a slon restart for around two hours. " Regards, Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers