On Saturday 20 March 2004 09:00 am, Jan Wieck wrote:
> The current CVS tip of Slony is not only capable of replicating master
> to slave between 7.3.x and 7.4.x. It can also switch over in a
> controlled fashion so that one slave becomes master and the master turns
> into a fully synchronized slave at the same time. The databases are
> protected against updates during the handover, so the application will
> experience a little time where none of the databases will accept write
> transactions. Read transactions succeed all the time on both databases
> without interruption.
[snip]
> I plan to make a pre-release of Slony-I within the next 3-4 weeks. This
> will not include failover and a few other features. But it will be fully
> capable of doing 2 machine DB version upgrades via replication as
> described above.
This just made my day!
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Lamar Owen
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