Ed L. pgsql
Tue Oct 26 18:42:32 PDT 2004
On Friday September 10 2004 8:47, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 9/10/2004 3:02 AM, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> > On September 9, 2004 11:26 pm, Hendrik Woltersdorf wrote:
> >>
> >> But it's easy to build a slon deamon that does not do the initial
> >> delete and copy (controlled by a command line option). That way I can
> >> do the sync any way I like, subscribe without copying and restart the
> >> slon without the "do not copy"  flag. It's also a work around for
> >> removing a table from a set.
> >>
> >> regards
> >>
> >> Hendrik Woltersdorf
> >> (source code for that hack is available)
> >
> > I wouldn't mind seeing this hack. and if it looks to be massageable
> > into something bullet proof, I'd like to be the one to get it into the
> > tree.
>
> Me neither. Although Slony-I is designed to do "hot-join" (initial sync
> against a live updated database), it does strike me as a good idea to
> allow for this sort of "cold-start" as well.

Did Hendrik's patch for this ever get submitted?

If not, Hendrik, would you consider forwarding a 1.0.5 patch file for this 
hack?  It would be quite useful.

Ed



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