Fair enough.  Sorry if I offended anyone.  We've been using Slony at www.redfin.com for a few months now, and it gets the job done for us, so thank you to everyone who contributed to this project.

--S

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Riggs [mailto:simon at 2ndquadrant.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:51 AM
To: Shahaf Abileah
Cc: slony1-general at lists.slony.info
Subject: Re: [Slony1-general] Using Postgres' continuous archiving andpoint-in-time recovery as a form of replication

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 20:00 -0700, Shahaf Abileah wrote:

> By the way, if it can, it seems that:
> 
> 1.      It would have the advantage that various operations are
> handled in a more natural manner than with Slony (e.g. DDL)
> 
> 2.      It would have the disadvantage that you can’t be choosy about
> what to replicate – you get the entire DB cluster, or nothing at all.
> 
> Is that correct?

Those are correct but of course whether they are advantages or
disadvantages depends upon the situation and your requirements.

Slony has many features designed to fine-tune the replication process,
so the phrase "more natural manner" isn't fair. "without needing to run
a command" would be more neutral viewpoint.

-- 
  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com