Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:29:39 -0700
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>,
	Jason McManus <mcmanus.jason@gmail.com>,
	pgsql general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Notes on converting from MySQL 5.0.x to PostgreSQL
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:22:28PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>  
> 
> > > * Replication support still rudimentary.
> > 
> > Hmmmm.  I think that's an overly simplistic evaluation.  The slony
> > replication engine is actually VERY advanced, but the
> > administrative tools consist mostly of "your brain".  hehe.  That
> > said, once you've learned how to drive it, it's quite amazing.  
> 
> I'm not sure that many people necessarily realise it, but you can
> also drive Slony directly from pgAdmin 1.4+ if slonik scripts give
> you a headache.

Last I checked, pgAdmin 1.4 doesn't help setting up clusters, which is
one of the major headaches of a Slony-I setup.  I also noticed that
pgAdmin 1.6-to-be has at least some of those hooks.  Any ETA on that?

Cheers,
D
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