I'm working with a very large database.  300 tables and about 350 
sequences.  Dumped, it's about 8GB of data.

I've read several posts that seem to indicate that I need to let slony 
sync my data between the master and the slave when I subscribe the slave 
to the master.  I would prefer to avoid this, as it'll take quite a 
while for the sync to take place.  After about 2 hours and 30 minutes, 
I'm only about 5% complete.

Is this just a limitation of slony? Or is there a workaround I've missed?

Thanks,

Rob