Pedro Doria Meunier wrote:
Hi All, I would like to implement DB replication with Slony but with a slave that will not be always available. The master would have to check first of the slave's availability and then start syncing... Is this at all possible, or am I just raving? : )
I am quite new to Slony as well, but one of the first requirements the docs state is:
Thus, examples of cases where Slony-I probably won't work out well would include:
* Sites where connectivity is really "flakey" * Replication to nodes that are unpredictably connected. So I suspect Slony is not a solution for your effort. See: http://slony.info/documentation/slonyintro.html#INTRODUCTION -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly