Darcy Buskermolen <darcyb@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it?
> If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem ends up being
> Slony is designed to work across a multitude of versions of PG, and unless
> this was backported to at least 7.4, it would take a while (ie when we
> stopped supporting versions older than it was ported into) before we would
> make use of it.
[ shrug... ] That's not happening; for one thing the change requires a
layout change in pg_control and we have no mechanism to do that without
initdb.
regards, tom lane