On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:36:40AM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 08:25 +0000, Aaron Randall wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was wondering whether anybody had any information they could give me 
> > about how Slony is affected by network delays.
> 
> Badly and network outages don't help anything. I suggest you use the log
> based method for inter-site replication instead of allowing direct
> connections. Slony's standard mode  was not designed to work around
> network limitations.

Well, yes and no.  If you have a reasonably reliable WAN, it's
_certainly_ designed for that sort of environment.  If you have an
unstable network that comes and goes with the weather, what Rod says
is true.  But Afilias uses Slony to replicate things from (for
example) Missouri to Toronto all the time, without any adverse
effects.

A

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