Simple Slony-I Replication Setup.

Published on Jul 2, 2012

Above shown is an overview about Slony-I Asynchronous replication in short. For more information,Slony-I documentation is your best friend :). Let’s start with replication methods, in perltools method,you need to configure slony at the time of source installation to enable built-in perl scripts. These scripts start with “SLONIK_” and they are designed to carry replication administrative tasks. My demo for two methods shell(slonik) & Perl is on Localhost Single instance(5432) with two databases Master & Slave replicating one table “rep_table”.

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Upgrading Slony-I 2.0.x to latest version 2.1.x

Published on Jun 5, 2012

Slony-1 2.1 has very good fixes and new features like adding Bulk tables, improvement on WAIT FOR with Merge Set/Move Set, support for TRUNCATE on replicating tables and many more. Am using Slony-I 2.0.7, so thought of upgrading it to latest version. Upgrading Slony-I is very simple and it can be achievable in few steps. My upgrade procedure assumes there is already Master/Slave setup with Slony 2.0.7. Backup Plan: Backup the existing slony schema (_slonyschema) of master/slave Backup the OLD Slony Binaries Backup all initially creates slony configuration files.

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