Re: [OT] Slony (initial) Replication - Slow

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> {resend as don't see it on the list after 4 hours}
>
> I'm just wetting my hands with slony and during the setup of the slave,
> I did and dump and restore of the master DB to the Slave DB.

You don't need to do this.

> However during the startup of slony, I noticed that it issues a truncate
> command to the (to be) replicated table. Hence, this means that there's
> no such need for me to do a dump/restore in the 1st place.
>
> can someone confirm this? It _is_ taking long time (for slony) to do the
> \copy (~60GB in multiple tables being replicated, including (on the fly)
> index creation)

This is correct.  You want an empty replication database.  When you
start replication slony will bring the master and slave into sync.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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