Christopher Browne wrote:
> Jan has some pretty big changes in mind, in view of 8.3 having the
> ability to shut off triggers/rules without needing to hack on pg_catalog.
> 
> Jan needs to [pester, pester] start publishing the ideas on that. 
> There's a "greater vision" there (and he needs to make the argument
> about this) that we should see about having "Slony-I 2.0" be a cleaner,
> gentler version of Slony-I that would work only on PG 8.3 (and above). 
> Maintaining an upgrade path would mandate that Slony-I 1.2.x be
> compatible with PG 8.3, of course.

Yup.

> Note that I have been doing some work on removing 7.3-isms, removing
> TABLE ADD KEY, and doing other code cleanup on CVS HEAD with a view to
> simplifying the code base somewhat in preparation for that.
>>> I'd also like to back port this to 1.2.x so we can release a build with
>>> PostgreSQL 8.3. Any objections?
>>>     
>> Well lets see the work commited to -HEAD first, and if it's not too obtrusive 
>> then back patching to 1.2 may be applicable.
>>
>>   
> Yes, that seems like a good idea.

OK - I'll have a word with Greg when he gets here this morning and see
what he advises to replace the old macros.

> Some Windows-related changes came in from Hiroshi Saito in March; I have
> applied some of it, but found some of it wouldn't apply cleanly against
> CVS HEAD.  If we can get some combination of Dave and Hiroshi (probably
> both) added to the committers list, then that should allow them to more
> cleanly address this.

Yeah, I knew he was working on MSVC builds but didn't get a look at what
he's been doing yet (if I'm honest, I only just got round to subscribing
to the new lists :-( ). My commit access is in the process of being
reinstated as you know so we should be able to sort the Windows stuff
between us again.

Cheers, Dave.