Hi,

I am using Slony to replicate my database on a single slave database. It seems to work fine, but I have done several shell scripts to implement the failover and switch functionnalities. These scripts use slonik commands.
Looking in Slony installation files, I found /etc/slon_tools.conf file which is used by perl scripts (under /usr/bin/, such as slon_kill). These scripts may be used to execute slony commands. I guess I could use these files for implementing my failover and switch functions in an other way than shell scripts.

If I am right and before choosing my way of implementation, I would like to know if these scripts will be kept up to date in future versions, or, eventually, if one of the two ways (slonik commands or PERL scripts) will be given up. Can anybody answer?

Thanks for all.

Best regards,

Cyril SARRAMIAC.