On Thursday 09 June 2005 00:46, John Surnow wrote:
|   All of the documentation I've read assumes that a slave db is empty
| before the node subscribes to a cluster. What happens if the slave db isn't
| empty (e.g., the slave is an up-to-date copy of the master)? Is the set
| data on the slave deleted before new data is copied over from the master?

yes; the slave does a "select truncateTable('yourtable');" before copying the
data from the provider, which basically translates to a "delete from only 
yourtable".

Ciao,
Thomas
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