Slony is a popular, trigger-based replication solution for PostgreSQL.

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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 ...
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Postgresql sync databases

I am having a postgres database on my portable and on a server. I would like to keep those two in sync as easy as possible. I know about slony but I am not able to figure out: Does it work when the ...
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Slony lib not found

Trying to run the example slony config script in the documentation but getting the following error: postgres$ /tmp/slonik_example.sh <stdin>:8: PGRES_FATAL_ERROR load '$libdir/slony1_funcs'; ...
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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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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 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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Slony not replicating changes from a dump file

I’m working on a project where we are using pg_dump to get the data out of one database and then using psql to load it into another. The second database is the master db in a Slony replication ...
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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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Issue with slony-I replication on postgres master and slave database

I have two system with OS windows 8 and windows XP. I installed the postgres plus advance server for database replication on both system. I followed this link for whole process. But there is one issue ...