On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:53:05PM -0700, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > Fred -- > > Yes, the slave database(s) can be safely used in a R/O mode, Does it also block write transactions in those slaves? The ability for clients to write into the slave replicated tables is a problem, because it makes promoting a slave node somewhat risky. Slony-I has a trick to solve this problem, BTW. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster