Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:03, Tom Lane wrote: > > Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it? > > > > > > If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem ends up > > > being Slony is designed to work across a multitude of versions of PG, and > > > unless this was backported to at least 7.4, it would take a while (ie > > > when we stopped supporting versions older than it was ported into) > > > before we would make use of it. > > > > [ shrug... ] That's not happening; for one thing the change requires a > > layout change in pg_control and we have no mechanism to do that without > > initdb. > > I'll take a bit more of a look through the patch and see if it is a real boot > to use it on those platforms that support it, and that we have a suitable way > around it on those that don't. But at this point I wouldn't hold my breath > on that
The alternative seems to be that the Slony-I team doesn't feel they have a need for it, nobody else pushes hard enough for the feature to be in core, and thus Slony-I and all the rest stays broken forever. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly