On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:08:19PM -0400, Dominique Gagnon wrote:
> creates the paths directives). I will stick to 1.2.1 for now since it is
> packaged by debian but I may use the 1.2.9 tarball somewhere down the
> way.

I've suggested to someone else on this list that "the one packaged by
Debian" is an _extremely bad_ way to select the Slony version to use. 
If you actually need replication, and need it to work, you are going
to need to learn how to keep up with the latest stable releases of
the code.  

Slony works, and the project members try hard to make sure that
releases are reliable and useful, but it's a small community working
on a very young code base.  Normally, that doesn't matter, and
Debian's conservatism in what to put into the stable release is
extremely valuable.  In this case, however, the conservatism is a
possible recipe for serious bugs that can break your replication
system.  That probably means that, if you must use Debian packages,
you should learn how to build them from the sources for Slony.

A

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