On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:47:36AM -0500, Steve Singer wrote:
> ANY in progress transaction on the master blocks the initial copy even 
> if it hasn't yet touched a replicated table.

FWIW, I dimly recall that this restriction was something we learned
about by experience (at Afilias) either very early in the Slony work
or, more likely, with the previous (really broken) eRserver.  Age and
bitrot may be conflating this with a somewhat-related side effect of a
different bug, however.

A

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