> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:50:15PM +0200, Steven Mocking wrote:
>> On a more positive note, might the attached patch be a good addition to
>> the slony-I configure script for future stable releases? The current
>> code doesn't check the micro-version and a check like that would prevent
>> others from wasting as much time as I did.
>
> Well, support for 7.3 is actually going to go away in the near
> future, and we don't anticipate any dotrelease incompatibilities in
> future.  But thanks for the patch.

The patch winds up applying a bit differently than suggested; the fact
that 7.3 is no longer supported actually makes it pretty important.

The change is that the patch has to go against some m4 files, not against
configure...

Anyhoo, that's in now.  My one disappointment is that the check takes
place pretty late, after a lot of other tests get run to check for all
sorts of C library functions.  I'd sorta think that verifying that the PG
version is suitable would be amongst the first checks run.  (Of course,
it's only on AIX, where configure runs for some ghastly long period of
time, where it particularly matters...)

My entertainment of the day was when one of those at the Ohio LinuxFest
said "thanks" for Slony-I, and characterized it as being, more or less,
simple and obvious.  Which differs somewhat from a lot of the questions
that come up on the list :-).

I suppose that those that find Slony-I obvious don't need to ask too many
questions!