"Chung Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yup, restarting the slony processes did help.  Odd, that.  Thanks!

In the *distant* past, "restart the slons" was a near-universal first
answer to all problems we had.

I'd restart the slons, on the possibility that *something* had gotten
wedged up.  It was generally easy to do, entirely safe, and often
resolved these sorts of things.

Things have stabilized enough over the last couple of years that we
tend more to gnaw on the problems a bit to see if there's some sort of
lock or something outstanding that is the *true* problem.
Nonetheless, restarting slons is quite safe (unless an 18-hour-long
subscription is in progress), and unless you're keen on digging,
that's a good thing to try early on, *particularly* if there's
anything about your network that might be unreliable.

For instance, if you've got a WAN / VPN tunnel that traffic goes over,
it's possible for connections to fall over and possibly even 'recover'
without announcing this.  Your existing DB connection may be dead, but
it doesn't know it.  Restarting the slon may clear this sort of thing
out...
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