Hello Christopher,

Dnia 2010-11-18, czw o godzinie 15:20 -0500, Christopher Browne pisze: 
> Paweł Tęcza <P.Tecza at icm.edu.pl> writes:
> > I have never heard about slony1_ctl. Could you please write more about
> > that tool? Maybe any examples of usage? What advantages over slonik has
> > slony1_ctl utility?
> 
> slony1_ctl is a set of shell scripts that write slonik scripts.
> 
> They are more or less equivalent to the "altperl" scripts (see
> <http://www.slony.info/documentation/2.0/appendix.html#ALTPERL>), with
> the primary differences that:
> 
> a) slony1_ctl is written as shell scripts, rather than in Perl.
> 
> b) slony1_ctl is quite a lot more actively maintained than the "altperl"
> stuff in the Slony-I distribution.
> 
> slony_ctl and "altperl" are both ways to help generate slonik scripts,
> so they're not actually a replacement for slonik.
> 
> I haven't used slony1_ctl to configure a  cluster, and have used
> "altperl" to so.  On the other hand, I haven't used "altperl" for
> anything important in a number of years, so that's not much of a
> commendation.
> 
> I know there are people who are periodically still using altperl, so it
> seems an unsafe idea to drop that from the Slony-I distribution.  I'd
> still *like* to drop it, even though I know there's good reason not to!

Thank you very much for these details! I'm happy user of Perl, but I can
take a look at slony_ctl too :)

Cheers,
Pawel