In response to "Julian Scarfe" <julian at avbrief.com>:

> > I have a need to connect to a database, and quickly and easily determine
> > whether it is the slony master or a slony slave.
> 
> I use (for cluster _T1)
> 
> select "_T1".getlocalnodeid('_T1') = (select set_origin from "_T1".sl_set 
> limit 1);
> 
> which presumes that all sets have the same origin -- otherwise you can 
> specify the set in the query.

Thanks, Julian.  That's exactly the trick I needed!

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/

wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
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