On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 08:49 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:36:40AM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 08:25 +0000, Aaron Randall wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was wondering whether anybody had any information they could give me > > > about how Slony is affected by network delays. > > > > Badly and network outages don't help anything. I suggest you use the log > > based method for inter-site replication instead of allowing direct > > connections. Slony's standard mode was not designed to work around > > network limitations. > > Well, yes and no. If you have a reasonably reliable WAN, it's > _certainly_ designed for that sort of environment. If you have an > unstable network that comes and goes with the weather, what Rod says > is true. But Afilias uses Slony to replicate things from (for > example) Missouri to Toronto all the time, without any adverse > effects.
Call me a pessimist. When I pushed Slony in directions slightly off "normal" I regularly ended up in troubled. -- _______________________________________________ Slony1-general mailing list [email protected] http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general
