We are not using slony - we are replicating from sql server using perl.
Tom Lane wrote:
> Mija Lee <mija@scharp.org> writes:
>> We've had a number of odd things that have been going on that I can't
>> really explain, and that don't seem to result in log entries. Here's
>> some info:
>
>> - this is running 8.2.4 on a solaris 10 machine
>> - I reran the dump after posting and these problems did not reoccur
>> - We have a number of replicated schemas and tables on this server.
>> There were other problems with the replication that happened earlier in
>> the evening.
>
> Hmm, are you using Slony? If so, you ought to take this to the Slony
> mailing lists. There are various restrictions in Slony on what it
> assumes can be done to a replicated table, and I believe that things
> like what you are seeing are one of the possible consequences of
> breaking Slony's expectations. That's about as far as my knowledge
> goes though.
>
> regards, tom lane