On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:41:05AM -0400, Joshua Olson wrote:
> Any word of a win32 version of Slony1 for PostGre 8?

Ports are welcome. ;-)  There's no reason to suppose it can't be
done, in so far as Postgres runs on Windows.  I'm fairly sure that
the replication engine itself won't work on Win32 today, but I don't
know of any in-principle reason why you couldn't replicate a Postgres
8.0 database running on Win32.  (Has anyone tried?)  Whether you'd
want to is another matter.

Note that Slony more or less assumes that you are running a
datacentre-quality cluster.  It does not make allowances for fsync
failures and other such nastiness, and for most uses probably depends
on a current origin failing in a controlled and predictable way. 
IMNSHO, the Win32 port of PostgreSQL is not production quality yet,
if only because it's a brand new port.  I wouldn't use the first
version of a commercial app that had been ported to Win for any real
work; for the same reason, I wouldn't use the first version of
Postgres so ported, either.  The consensus in the Postgres developer
community seems to be the same: everyone is excited about the port,
but people expect some nasty bugs to surface.

Therefore, Win32 support for Slony is pretty low priority right now. 
There are plenty of needed features still.

A

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