Re: pg_listener table errors with slony

Le 19/01/2011 22:33, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> Le 19/01/2011 22:23, Dave Page a écrit :
>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>>> Le 14/01/2011 00:27, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
>>>>> Le 14/01/2011 00:09, Ben Carbery a écrit :
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> I am using slony 2.06 on a pg 9.0.2 installation with pgadmin 12.2.2.
>>>>>> Whenever I click on certain elements of the object browser associated with
>>>>>> replication I get an error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ERROR: relation pg_listener does not exist
>>>>>> LINE 1: SELECT listenerpid FROM pg_listener WHERE relname = '...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This occur under Replication-><cluster name> for example or when clicking on
>>>>>> nodes under that. This also occurs on 12.2.1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe this table no longer exists in 9.0 so I guess this is technically
>>>>>> a bug. Should it be logged as such?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, pgAdmin fires this query. As you say, this table no longer exists
>>>>> since the rework on the listen/notify mechanism done for 9.0. So, yeah,
>>>>> this is a bug in pgAdmin.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll try to work on this tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Got a look at this, and I reproduce the error. I don't think we have any
>>>> support of Slony 2.0.
>>>
>>> We did.
>>>
>>
>> We had 1.2 support. To have 2.0, we would have to get rid of the
>> sl_trigger checks. Or was it dropped along the way of 2.0?
>
> No idea - I just recall Sachin working on compatibility, and that was
> one of/the patch he came of with.
>

Yeah, you're right. I now see the commit. Which means we have two bugs
on 2.0 support.

> FWIW, I'd be happy to drop support. I don't think many people use it,
> and it certainly doesn't get tested enough.

I kind of agree for it not being tested enough.

> Plus, it's just one of many replication engines.
>

This isn't a good reason to me. I would like to see something alike for SR.

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