LSARC/2008/394 Provide Slony as a replication tool for PostgreSQL on Solaris and OpenSolaris distributions [LSARC/2008/394 FastTrack timeout 07/01/2008]]

[James Carlson]

James Gates writes:
>         Slony is a replication software that strongly depends on a
>         specific version of the PostgreSQL RDBMS.  As such,
>         the slony libraries will be placed in the same directory tree 
> 	as the corresponding PostgreSQL version. It is an OSS project,
>         not controlled by Sun, so interface stability can't
>         be guaranteed.

Using per-version file paths probably makes sense for the libraries,
but does embedding under /usr/postgres make sense for the rest of it,
particularly for the man pages?  Burying the man paths rather than
delivering to a common directory seems to make it harder to use.

> 	 /usr/postgres/slony/share/slony1_base.sql

What does "share" mean again?  :-/

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