On Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:41, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:46:12PM -0700, elein wrote:
> > The point of what I could write is that it is from the dba on the street
> > perpective, rather than the slony task perspective.  You are working, as
> > you
>
> FWIW, I think this is a capital idea.  I had to set up a replica
> recently, after not doing it for a longish period of time (ok, ok,
> the refresh rates on my memory are bad.  So sue me), and I have to
> say that if you don't already know more or less exactly what you're
> doing with Slony, the documents as they exist are really confusing.
> I also agree with Elein that this is mostly a perspective problem:
> all the data is there, but it's not laid out in a way you need it for
> naive administration.  It's easier to extrapolate from the tutorial,
> in fact, and I don't think that's a good thing.

No it's not, but as we all know quality documentation especially in FOSS is 
hard to come by.  We have come a long way since my original howto's (which I 
belive are the tutorials being referred to) but we have a much longer way to 
go.

>
> > I'd like to hear concerns about too many documentation branches as
> > well as real life problems that people have run into when setting
> > up and administering slony.
>
> Well, if we had another branch after this I'd squawk, but this is
> fine.



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