Elephants, Slony and the inveitable complication
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008The last three days have been filled with dreams of elephants. Metaphorical ones that never forget and are heavy. Slony is Russian for elephants. Slony also can replicate PostgreSQL databases in an asynchronous master/slave configuration. It is extremely complicated to configure.
I have some very minimal insights on this after reading through the documentation multiple times. Unfortunately, the documentation is very vague and filled with typos. It also has many sections where the answer to a question is “this hasn’t been agreed upon yet”. So for example, starting up the slon processes at boot time is an unsolved problem.