Thank you for your response Bill. It is helping us a great deal to understand the issues around backups. Would any of the pg_xlog, pg_clog, etc change for a table that has a stable structure and data? That is, the table undergoes several inserts and then it is never updated "Bill Moran" <wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20090603161817.131e706e.wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > In response to "Carlos Oliva" <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Can the synchronization with Slony run while the old database is still >> being >> updated daily? I am wondering if we can just let Slony run until the >> databases are fully synchronized and then switch databases. > > Yes, and yes. That's exactly what Slony is for. > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general