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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> 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.  
Exactly. Replication is "serious" work. And slony is extremly easy to
install from the tarballs, no need for deb files.

> 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.

;)

Andreas
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