On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> - stop slony
> - install the new version

of slony, I take it?  Then yes.

> - once the new server is in sync, stop the application updating the database,
>   and switch the origin to the new server.

Right.  This is a switchover, and not a failover, note.

> Oh yeah, the versions of postgresql and slony I'm upgrading to is
> pretty much determined by the versions available in Debian. I built
> slony 1.0.5 myself back then, but I'd like to be able to use standard
> package versions from now on.

Are you familiar with debuild?  I think that at least in the case of
Slony, you're going to want to be able to build new packages fairly
easily, because it's still fairly young, and we've had some nasty
bugs turn up.

A

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