Cyril SCETBON <scetbon at echo.fr> writes:
> As said Christopher Brown new commands are coming : CLONE PREPARE and
> CLONE FINISH to bypass this mecanism
>
> see http://lists.slony.info/pipermail/slony1-commit/2008-January/002145.html

They do, to a degree, but not completely.  The CLONE commands operate
on subscribers, so you need to have at least one subscriber in order
to start cloning.

It would be in principle possible to do a "clone" against a master; we
prepared a gedanken experiment as to how this would be done...  It
would require a slight outage to establish a synchronization point,
which makes it somewhat problematic, and which is why we haven't
pursued the more extensive cloning.
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