On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Bill Moran <[email protected]> wrote: > In response to John Moran <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Bill, >> >> > Hey ... are we related? >> >> I live in the UK....perhaps we are long lost cousins? :-) > > It's possible, that side of my family has a history of being rather ... > "friendly". > >> I guess that it's more a matter of politics or perception; I'd like to >> be able to boast that our application is very robust, and can easily >> handle server downtime (which has been our experience with Slony thus >> far), or turning off servers when not needed. I can see how it would >> be a bad idea to widely recommend this to slony users, because some >> have massive databases where, if a slave is left to fall behind for >> long enough it will literally never be able to catch up with the >> master. I myself do not have such a large database, and hope that my >> users can attain acceptable performance while doing this sort of >> thing. Not that this will be a "salesman on the road" type scenario, >> but it's a valuable thing to be able to do > > The big suggestion I would make here is to test aggressively. Since > Slony is not really intended for this sort of use, it's not tested > against it. As a result, there may be hidden problems that nobody has > yet come across. Also, if you hit problem, you're going to have some > difficulty getting help since you're using the system in a way that > it's not really intended for.
But the good news is that his dbs are small, so they can likely just resubscribe semi-automagically if needs be in a minute or two. _______________________________________________ Slony1-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slony.info/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general
