Re:

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Hmm... can someone tell me how it is possible to setup a Master and two-Slave replication via
> pgAdmin3 and is it possible to do?

Yes, it is possible, and here's how (I'll be posting this on my blog and
adding it to the pgAdmin docs):

Setting up a multi-node Slony replication cluster using pgAdmin
===============================================================

In this example, a master server is setup with two direct slaves. The
software used is as follows:

- PostgreSQL 8.2.5
- pgAdmin III 1.8 beta 5
- Slony-I 1.2.11

Everything is running on a single machine with Windows XP Pro as the
operating system. The Postgres pgbench utility is used to generate the
test schema and workload.

1) Create 3 databases, master, slave1 and slave2 and ensure pl/pgsql is
setup in each.

2) Create a pgbench schema in the master database:

> pgbench -i -U postgres master

3) Add a primary key called history_pkey to the history table on the
tid, bid and aid columns.

4) Create a schema-only dump of the master database, and load it into
slave1 and slave2:

> pg_dump -s -U postgres master > schema.sql
> psql -U postgres slave1 < schema.sql
> psql -U postgres slave2 < schema.sql

5) Create Slony config files for each slon engine (daemon on *nix). The
files should contain just the following two lines:

cluster_name='pgbench'
conn_info='host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 user=postgres dbname=master'

Create a file for each database, adjusting the dbname parameter as
required and adding any other connection options that may be
needed.

6) (Windows only) Install the Slony-I service:

> slon -regservice Slony-I

7) Register each of the engines (this is only necessary on Windows - on
*nix the slon daemons may be started individually and given the path
to the config file on the command line using the -f option):

> slon -addengine Slony-I C:\slony\master.conf
> slon -addengine Slony-I C:\slony\slave1.conf
> slon -addengine Slony-I C:\slony\slave2.conf

8) In pgAdmin under the Replication node in the master database, create
a new Slony-I cluster using the following options:

Join existing cluster: Unchecked
Cluster name: pgbench
Local node: 1 Master node
Admin node: 99 Admin node

9) Under the Replication node, create a Slony-I cluster in each of the
slave databases using the following options:

Join existing cluster: Checked
Server: <Select the server containing the master db>
Database: master
Cluster name: pgbench
Local node: 10 Slave node 1
Admin node: 99 - Admin node

and:

Join existing cluster: Checked
Server: <Select the server containing the master db>
Database: master
Cluster name: pgbench
Local node: 20 Slave node 2
Admin node: 99 - Admin node

10) Create Paths on the master to both slaves, and on each slave back to
the master. Create the paths under each node on the master, using
the connection strings specified in the slon config files. Note that
future restructuring of the cluster may require additional paths to
be defined.

11) Create a Replication Set on the master using the following settings:

ID: 1
Comment: pgbench set

12) Add the tables to the replication set using the following settings:

Table: public.accounts
ID: 1
Index: accounts_pkey

Table: public.branches
ID: 2
Index: branches_pkey

Table: public.history
ID: 3
Index: history_pkey

Table: public.tellers
ID: 4
Index: tellers_pkey

14) On the master node, create a new subscription for each slave using the
following options:

Origin: 1
Provider: 1 - Master node
Receiver: 10 - Slave node 1

Origin: 1
Provider: 1 - Master node
Receiver: 20 - Slave node 2

15) Start the slon service (or daemons on *nix):

> net start Slony-I

Initial replication should begin and can be monitored on the statistics
tab in pgAdmin for each node. The pgbench utility may be run against the
master database to generate a test workload.

Regards, Dave