Andrew Sullivan <ajs at crankycanuck.ca> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:39:19PM -0700, Dane Miller wrote:
>> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> > You need to modify your schema for real.  That feature of Slony is
>> > going away.  It caused too much grief.
>> 
>> Thanks for the warning Andrew.  Can you point me to more info on this
>> issue?
>
> If you look in the CAUTION box of
> http://slony.info/documentation/stmttableaddkey.html, you'll see
> that it warns you that this sort of thing is a sign that your schema
> needs fixing anyway, and that there's no support for this in log
> shipping (and no support is contemplated).  I thought I remembered a
> plan actually to rip this functionality out, but so far I don't see
> that it actually has been. Nevertheless, it's definitely deprecated.
> Having some database component modify your schema is a good way to
> be surprised later.

It is torn out in CVS HEAD, and has been for quite a while.

http://lists.slony.info/pipermail/slony1-commit/2007-April/001686.html
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