Re: Slony-I 1.0.4 Released

Sorry folks,

the Slony-I team has produced a great product, but the project
management (that's mostly me here) sucks big time!

Shortly after giving Chris Browne green light for the 1.0.4 announcement
we found a way to guard against bug #896. That being a really bad one I
decided to stop the 1.0.4 release and go for 1.0.5 including that fix.
But I failed to make sure Chris, Justin and others involved in the
announcement process get the message.

I have just committed those changes and 1.0.5 should be available later
today.

I apologize for the confusion and look forward to retire from the
Slony-I project leadership position in order to fully focus on the
multimaster replication project Afilias has decided to put forward.

Jan

On 10/21/2004 5:55 PM, Chris Browne wrote:

> The Slony-I team is proud to present the 1.0.4 release of the most
> advanced replication solution for the most advanced Open Source
> Database in the world.
>
> The release tarball is available for download
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1/download/slony1-1.0.4.tar.gz
>
> There are a limited number of "new features" this release largely in
> terms of adding in the ability to move or drop tables and sequences
> from replication:
>
> - SET DROP TABLE - drops a table from replication
> - SET DROP SEQUENCE - does the same for sequences
> - SET MOVE TABLE - moves a table from one replication set to another
> - SET MOVE SEQUENCE - moves a sequence from one replication set to another
>
> Other changes involve smoothing out the 'sharp edges' found by early
> adopters, notably including:
>
> - Frequently vacuuming pg_listener; growth of dead tuples could hurt
> performance
>
> - A cleanup process for pg_listener resolves cases where old slon
> processes may have terminated due to network problems, leaving
> backends around holding onto event notifications
>
> - Lowered lock level on sl_event, resolving issues where pg_dump
> would block Slony-I
>
> - Purges CONFIRM entries for nodes that don't exist anymore
>
> - Substantially increased documentation
>
> - More sophisticated administration scripts
>
> - Now uses string comparison for user defined types that do not have
> a suitable comparison operation
>
> - Safer log purging
>
> - Various other bug fixes and "improved cleanliness."
>
> - As of 1.0.4, the slon replication engine refuses to work against
> any database that does not have the stored procedures for the same
> version loaded or where the shared object containing the C language
> support functions and the log trigger does not match the version
> number. in a cluster must be upgraded at once.
>
> See the HISTORY-1.0 file for a detailed list of changes.
>
> <http://slony.info/>

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