On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:25 PM, "Stéphane A. Schildknecht"
<stephane.schildknecht at postgresqlfr.org> wrote:
>
> Mark Kirkwood a écrit :
>> Is is required for master and slave hosts to run the same version of
>> slony? I guessing it probably is, but seems worthwhile checking for sure.
>
> Yes, it is. Slony won't work unless every node runs the same version.
>
>>
>> For instance the case under consideration is:
>>
>> host1  Slony 1.2.10 Postgres 8.2
>> host2  Slony 1.2.15 Postgres 8.3
>>
>> Due to the restrictions of package management (Debian system in this
>> case) - to match the versions we'll have to roll our own Slony package!
>
> Seems like you'll have to compile your own Slony version, which is not so painful.

It can be painful. You might need to build your own PostgreSQL 8.2 as well.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/slony1/+bug/236749


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