On 5/25/2011 5:39 PM, Ger Timmens wrote:
>
>>  In the early days, the solution to a whole lot of problems was "kill
>>  off the slons and let them restart," and that wouldn't ever corrupt
>>  data.
>
> Correct, however not during a copy set, if I'm right. In that
> case a restart of the slon process would start copying the set
> from the start again..... Not a big deal for smaller sets, but
> if you're replicating multiple Gigabytes.....

Makes no difference with respect to data integrity. Yes, it has to start 
over from scratch, but if you think there is a reason to kill your slon 
processes over and over again, you need to find out what exactly is 
wrong with either your network, you setup or yourself.


Jan

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