On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:16 -0400, Jeff - wrote:
> One of the biggest things for Slony is that you can install slony,
> set things up and it will bring the slave(s) "up to speed". You
> don't need to do an initial data dump (I think you still need to load
> the schema on the slaves, but not the data). That is a BIG win for
> us folks who can't take a machine down while pg_dump runs (and while
> it is restored on hte slave)
Why would you need to take anything down to run pg_dump? And surely
bringing a slave up to speed using Slony would be much slower than
dump/restore?
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