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  <a href="http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.2/slony1-1.2.6-docs.tar.bz2">documentation</a>
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! Slony-1 1.1.6 <a href="http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.1/slony1-1.1.6-tar.bz2">engine</a>
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  Slony-I New Web Site!
  http://main.slony.info
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  <a href="http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.2/slony1-1.2.6-docs.tar.bz2">documentation</a>
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! Slony-1 1.1.7 <a href="http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.1/slony1-1.1.7-tar.bz2">engine</a>
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+ Slony-I Release - 1.2.7
+ http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.2
+ 2007-03-07
+ Chris Browne
+ We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.7, which may be
+ found <a href="http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.2/slony1-1.2.7-tar.bz2">here</a>.  
+ There is also a <a href="http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.2/slony1-1.2.7-docs-tar.bz2">Documentation tarball </a>.
+ 
+ <P> This release fixes several problems that were found in the 1.2 stream:
+ <ul>
+ <li> Add remote_listen_timeout parameter to slon.conf
+ 
+ <p> This addresses the problem where a slon times out when accessing
+ sl_event if a node has been out of commission for a long time (several
+ days)
+ 
+ <li> Resolve bug #1623
+ 
+ <p> In this bug, big "action lists" that need to get compressed could cause
+ a logging printf to blow up.  Changed the logging level so that detail
+ is only shown at level 4, which won't bite people by default.
+ 
+ <li> UNINSTALL NODE failures now show node # in slonik error messages
+ 
+ <P> If a user ran several UNINSTALL NODE requests in a single slonik
+ script, and one of them broke, you'd have no ready way to tell which
+ node this failed on.  Added code to report the node # where it failed.
+ 
+ <li> Added test to test1 for function generate_sync_event() and make_function_strict
+ 
+ <li> Added "v81" files (for slony1_base.v81.sql, slony1_funcs.v81.sql,
+ xxid.v81.sql), necessary to support 8.1 "ALTER FUNCTION ... STRICT";
+ 
+ <li> Fixed quoting problem in generate_sync_event()
+ 
+ <li> Added functionality to UPDATE FUNCTIONS to make xxidin() function
+ STRICT; the absence of this caused postmaster to fall over when
+ processing MOVE SET event in PG v8.2
+ 
+ <li> Added documentation of an issue surrounding NULLABLE columns to the
+ log analysis chapter of the admin guide and to the UPGRADING docs.
+ 
+ <li> When you run MOVE SET, this populates sl_setsync for the moved set
+   even on nodes that are not subscribed.  If, subsequent to doing this, 
+   you attempt a SUBSCRIBE SET for a formerly-unsubscribed node, the
+   subscription will fail right at the end when the slon tries to insert a
+   new value to sl_setsync.
+ 
+ <P>   The fix: DELETE from sl_setsync immediately before the INSERT.  This
+   will silently blow away any 'offending' sl_setsync row.
+ 
+ <p>  (As observed by Afilias staff...)
+ 
+ <li> Log shipping fix - storage of sl_setsync_offline call had a wrong
+   printf type; change from %d to %s
+ </ul>
+ ---
+ Slony-I Release - 1.1.7
+ http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.1
+ 2007-03-07
+ Chris Browne
+ We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.7, which may be
+ found <a href="http://main.slony.info/downloads/1.1/slony1-1.1.7-tar.bz2">here</a>.  
+ It fixes several problems that were found in the 1.2 stream that were readily back-ported to 1.1:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add remote_listen_timeout parameter to <tt>slon.conf</tt>
+ 
+ <p> This addresses the problem where a slon times out when accessing
+ sl_event if a node has been out of commission for a long time (several
+ days)
+ 
+ <li> Add node numbers to error reports in slonik
+ 
+ <p> If portions of UNINSTALL NODE break, report in the error message which node
+ it was working on.  That way the gentle user gets an indication as to 
+ which node 'broke' if the slonik script contained multiple such
+ requests.
+ 
+ <li> Applied bug fix for #1538
+ 
+ <p> If cluster has only one node, then remove all events up to the last
+ SYNC.  That allows the cleanup loop to clear out sl_log_{1/2}.
+ Otherwise, the log tables will forever bloat until you add a second
+ node...
+ 
+ <li> Added test to test1 for function generate_sync_event() and make_function_strict
+ 
+ <li> Added "v81" files (for slony1_base.v81.sql, slony1_funcs.v81.sql,
+ xxid.v81.sql), necessary to support 8.1 "ALTER FUNCTION ... STRICT";
+ 
+ <li> Fixed quoting problem in generate_sync_event()
+ 
+ <li> Added functionality to UPDATE FUNCTIONS to make xxidin() function
+ STRICT; the absence of this caused postmaster to fall over when
+ processing MOVE SET event in PG v8.2 (not to say that Slony-I 1.1 now
+ *supports* 8.2; it does not)
+ 
+ <li> When you run MOVE SET, this populates sl_setsync for the moved set
+   even on nodes that are not subscribed.  If, subsequent to doing this, 
+   you attempt a SUBSCRIBE SET for a formerly-unsubscribed node, the
+   subscription will fail right at the end when the slon tries to insert a
+   new value to sl_setsync.
+ 
+ <p>  The fix: DELETE from sl_setsync immediately before the INSERT.  This
+   will silently blow away any 'offending' sl_setsync row.
+ 
+ <P>  (As observed by Afilias staff...)
+ 
+ <li> Log shipping fix - storage of sl_setsync_offline call had a wrong
+   printf type; change from %d to %s
+ </ul>
+ ---
  Slony-I New Web Site!
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