cudos guys :-)

On April 14, 2005 01:58 pm, Christopher Browne wrote:
> The Slony-I team is pleased to present the first beta release for
> Slony-I version 1.1, the most most advanced replication solution for
> the most advanced Open Source Database in the world.
>
> The release tarball is available for download here:
> slony1-1.1-beta.tar.gz. See the HISTORY-1.1 file for a detailed list
> of changes.
>
> Major changes include:
>
> - Greatly expanded documentation
>
> - Slonik configuration language supports @include and @define,
> analagous #include and #define in C.
>
> - Automatic generation of "listen paths" which required complex and
> error-prone manual effort in earlier versions
>
> - Slon daemon processes can draw configuration from a configuration
> file as an alternative to all parameters being passed in via command
> line
>
> - Log spooling allows replicated data to be stored in files to be
> transmitted by various means to support remote sites that cannot be
> safely connected to a secure data center.
>
> - Inclusion of an increasing sophisticated set of administrative
> scripts to operate and monitor Slonik installations
>
> - Adaptive grouping of updates diminishes the need for administrator
> intervention
>
> - Signal handling changes build a watchdog into the slon process,
> allowing the system to detect and rectify a number of deadlock
> situations without requiring user intervention
>
> - Improved tuning of cleanup behaviour to avoid cases of wasted
> vacuums
>
> - Build environment has removed the requirement of having access to an
> entire PostgreSQL source tree, which will make it much easier to build
> "packaged" versions of Slony-I
>
> All this is in addition to numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements
> of the past six months.