On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:56 -0800, Craig James wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:51:57PM -0800, Jeff Frost wrote:
> >> You might check the slon logs for any indication this is what caused your 
> >> problem.  I thought slon did its work based entirely on xxid, but I could 
> >> be wrong.  Perhaps one of the developers will comment.  In any event, I'm 
> >> sure you know the clocks should be in sync as a best practice.
> > 
> > Not entirely based on xxid, no.  They can't be synced across nodes.  You
> > _must_ be nntp-synced between your nodes.  They should peer from one
> > another, and _then_ get their time from some other source.
> 
> I want to be sure I understand this: Are you saying that a few milliseconds of time skew between servers will make Slony fail?
> 

No, it won't.  There is always going to be some minor skew, even when
synced with NTP.

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