On August 11, 2004 07:41 am, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:41:05AM -0400, Joshua Olson wrote:
> > Any word of a win32 version of Slony1 for PostGre 8?
>
> Ports are welcome. ;-)  There's no reason to suppose it can't be
> done, in so far as Postgres runs on Windows.  I'm fairly sure that
> the replication engine itself won't work on Win32 today, but I don't
> know of any in-principle reason why you couldn't replicate a Postgres
> 8.0 database running on Win32.  (Has anyone tried?)  Whether you'd
> want to is another matter.
It "should" be possible to replicate a DB on win32, provided you run all your 
slon and slonik instances on a supported unix platform.   Now having said 
that I did do a small look into to it lastnight and it's not a "2 click" 
thing to do. I'll investigate this a bit more heavily over the next few weeks 
and report back findings.

>
> Note that Slony more or less assumes that you are running a
> datacentre-quality cluster.  It does not make allowances for fsync
> failures and other such nastiness, and for most uses probably depends
> on a current origin failing in a controlled and predictable way.
> IMNSHO, the Win32 port of PostgreSQL is not production quality yet,
> if only because it's a brand new port.  I wouldn't use the first
> version of a commercial app that had been ported to Win for any real
> work; for the same reason, I wouldn't use the first version of
> Postgres so ported, either.  The consensus in the Postgres developer
> community seems to be the same: everyone is excited about the port,
> but people expect some nasty bugs to surface.
>
> Therefore, Win32 support for Slony is pretty low priority right now.
> There are plenty of needed features still.

Agreed because slon makes use of pthreads (which windows does not support) 
Porting the full suite to run under windows is somewhat of a non trivial 
process, certanly not one I'm eager to attempt to undertake.

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