On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:56:41PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Just because you consider A as "master" doesn't mean that C can be 
> entirely ignorant. In Slony no node is ever the master of everything. 
> They can own a couple of objects, but they are never master of the cluster.

The important thing here is to stop thinking in terms of "master" and
"slave".  Think of the cluster _first_.  Then, think of each node as
having role _R_ at time _T_.  The values of _R_ (and, obviously, _T_)
may change over time.

A

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