In response to Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>:

> If I need to restart the postmaster on my slony replication slave, 
> should I shut down the slony daemons first?

If you restart the postmaster without restarting the slons, the slons
will be disconnected, sleep for a bit, then reconnect and go back to
work.

So, no, you don't have to manually restart the slons.

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Bill Moran
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