On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson at simkin.ca> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2008, "Tory M Blue" <tmblue at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I'm just remembering that versions were not compatible, but am
>> not clear if that goes for smaller patch versions as well? And if not,
>> it's kind of a pain :)
>
> They aren't, but the upgrades aren't really an issue - just take down the
> slons, replace the installed Slony, run a slon script to "update
> functions", and restart the slons. No downtime, unless I'm missing
> something ...


Oops sorry Alan, your right no downtime, except that i'm upgrading
postgres at the same time (I bundle my rpm).. So I have to stop
postgres which requires downtime.

Ya I could decouple and do it with very little downtime ..

at least you made me think :)

Thanks
Tory