Andre Chagas de Miranda Reboucas wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm building a HA solution with Slony-I + HeartBeat with 2 machines, and my goal is to create a script that should be able to start/stop Slony-I Replication in order to use it in my haresources file. 
>
> My ideia was to gather all slony-I initialization scripts into a /etc/init.d/ script. So far my script is doing quite well in starting Slony-I, but I'm having troubles when I try to stop it. The problem is that, until now, I didn't find out other ways to stop Slony, unless killing slon or stoping postgres service.
>
> Does anyone has any tip of how to stop slony decently? 
>
> Thanks a lot.
>   
Simple answer:  Go ahead, kill the slon process.

That is how to get replication to stop.

When we want to shut replication down, the script usually does something
like the following:

kill -2 $PID
sleep 10
kill -9 $PID

e.g. - if the slon refuses to die, it puts it down hard...