Robert Landrum a écrit :
> 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

I'm afraid you're facing a real limitation of the actual versions. You
have to let the first synchronisation begin with an empty slave database.

Regards,

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