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Teaching Slony replication to select slave nodes

There is a system with up to 256 nodes in db cluster. We need to replicate some data from one of them across to all others. But for every row to replicate there is a list of nodes where it must be ...
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Slony initial subscription is causing out-of-memory kernel panics. Why?

Context: We run Slony 2.0 with Postgres 8.4 on two CentOS 6 servers--one master, and one slave. Our database is about 30GB in size, which isn't unusual, but we do have a couple of tables that are ...
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Can I replicate views with Slony?

Can I feed some SQL that creates a view to Slony? I have some SQL that does CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW name_of_view and so on, passes it to slonik_execute_script, and then tries to run slonik_create_set ...
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Slony - Wait for Event

What is the behavior of Slony waiting for an event after lock set command? Basically I am trying to do a switchover and it takes a lot of time. We are following these steps: Lock Set Wait for Event ...
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Streaming replication and failover on PostgreSQL

I am doing a proof of concept on PostgreSQL replication. After the discussion on forum we decided to go with streaming replication as the performance is good compared to other solutions. PostgreSQL is ...