These are good comments. I've added them to the outline more or less.

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:50:21PM -0400, Steven Singer wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, elein wrote:
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> A few comments.
> 
> Installing
> -A section on getting/installing slony.  Specifically mentioning that it 
> isn't included in the core distribution and with links to binaries for the 
> more popular distributions that pre-bundled binaries are availble for.

Question: Is slony contained in any distributions?  What is our RPM and debian
status?  Do we have one.  I always go from source.

> 
> Network connectivity:
> -Creating the slony user on all servers
> -This also might be a good time to discuss that database users won't be 
> copied by the pg_dump -s nor by slony and that they have to be setup 
> manually.

Good point.

> 
> Failover:
> I think the master failover section should have a subsection on automatic 
> failover that discuss the issues with having the failover decision left to 
> a something like heartbeat and instructions on how to set it up if thats 
> how the user decides to go.

I think this would go in part of the main documentation rather than the
tutorial.  I am firmly in the camp of having humans call a failover. No one
has ever convinced me that there is a tool that can asses a random failure,
as distinct from a network blip.  So let's argue elsewhere and keep it simple
in the tutorial. 

--elein


> 
> 
> 
> >I've plugged an outline for a Slony-I User Tutorial onto
> >the wiki along with the first overview section.
> >
> >I'm looking for feedback on the outline.  What did I miss?
> >Should anything be rearranged differently?  Remember this is
> >from a user point of view.
> >
> >The first section is just a paste in from a previously edited
> >article with some images (to be downloaded when I figure out how to
> >upload them).  Does it match the outline section for this
> >chapter?  Later on we may want to smooth out the styles of the
> >newer sections.
> >
> >I have not yet begun to put in the info regarding perl tool
> >and production environment.  These should be helpful.
> >
> >A modicum of interest would be encouraging.
> >
> >cheers,
> >elein
> >elein at varlena.com
> >
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