On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:03, Tom Lane wrote: > Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it? > > > > If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem ends up > > being Slony is designed to work across a multitude of versions of PG, and > > unless this was backported to at least 7.4, it would take a while (ie > > when we stopped supporting versions older than it was ported into) > > before we would make use of it. > > [ shrug... ] That's not happening; for one thing the change requires a > layout change in pg_control and we have no mechanism to do that without > initdb.
I'll take a bit more of a look through the patch and see if it is a real boot to use it on those platforms that support it, and that we have a suitable way around it on those that don't. But at this point I wouldn't hold my breath on that > > regards, tom lane -- Darcy Buskermolen CommandPrompt, Inc. Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 http://www.commandprompt.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
