Slony-I 1.1.5 Documentation

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Christopher Browne

Copyright © 2004-2006 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Slony-I
2. Slony-I Communications Costs
3. System Requirements
4. Slony-I Installation
5. Slony-I Concepts
6. Defining Slony-I Clusters
7. Defining Slony-I Replication Sets

1. Replicating Your First Database
2. Slon daemons
3. Subscribing Nodes
4. Monitoring
5. Slony-I Maintenance
6. Reshaping a Cluster
7. Doing switchover and failover with Slony-I
8. Slony-I listen paths
9. Slony-I Path Communications
10. Locking Issues
11. Adding Things to Replication
12. Dropping things from Slony-I Replication
13. Log Shipping - Slony-I with Files
14. Database Schema Changes (DDL)
15. Using Slonik
16. Embedding Slonik in Shell Scripts
17. Not Using Slonik - Bare Metal Slony-I Functions
18. Slony-I Administration Scripts
19. Using Slony-I for PostgreSQL Upgrades
20. Slony-I "Best Practices"
21. Slony-I Test Bed Framework
22. More Slony-I Help

I. Core Slony-I Programs

slon -- Slony-I daemon

slonik -- Slony-I command processor

I. Slonik Meta Commands
II. Slonik Preamble Commands
III. Configuration and Action commmands

1. Schema schemadoc

1.1. Table: sl_config_lock
1.2. Table: sl_confirm
1.3. Table: sl_event
1.4. Table: sl_listen
1.5. Table: sl_log_1
1.6. Table: sl_log_2
1.7. Table: sl_node
1.8. Table: sl_path
1.9. View: sl_seqlastvalue
1.10. Table: sl_seqlog
1.11. Table: sl_sequence
1.12. Table: sl_set
1.13. Table: sl_setsync
1.14. Table: sl_subscribe
1.15. Table: sl_table
1.16. Table: sl_trigger
1.17. add_missing_table_field( text, text, text, text )
1.18. altertableforreplication( integer )
1.19. altertablerestore( integer )
1.20. cleanupevent( )
1.21. cleanuplistener( )
1.22. createevent( name, text )
1.23. createevent( name, text, text )
1.24. createevent( name, text, text, text )
1.25. createevent( name, text, text, text, text )
1.26. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text )
1.27. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text, text )
1.28. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text, text, text )
1.29. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text )
1.30. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text )
1.31. ddlscript( integer, text, integer )
1.32. ddlscript_int( integer, text, integer )
1.33. denyaccess( )
1.34. determineattkindserial( text )
1.35. determineattkindunique( text, name )
1.36. determineidxnameserial( text )
1.37. determineidxnameunique( text, name )
1.38. disablenode( integer )
1.39. disablenode_int( integer )
1.40. droplisten( integer, integer, integer )
1.41. droplisten_int( integer, integer, integer )
1.42. dropnode( integer )
1.43. dropnode_int( integer )
1.44. droppath( integer, integer )
1.45. droppath_int( integer, integer )
1.46. dropset( integer )
1.47. dropset_int( integer )
1.48. droptrigger( integer, name )
1.49. droptrigger_int( integer, name )
1.50. enablenode( integer )
1.51. enablenode_int( integer )
1.52. enablesubscription( integer, integer, integer )
1.53. enablesubscription_int( integer, integer, integer )
1.54. failednode( integer, integer )
1.55. failednode2( integer, integer, integer, bigint, bigint )
1.56. failoverset_int( integer, integer, integer )
1.57. forwardconfirm( integer, integer, bigint, timestamp without time zone )
1.58. generate_sync_event( interval )
1.59. getlocalnodeid( name )
1.60. getmoduleversion( )
1.61. getsessionrole( name )
1.62. initializelocalnode( integer, text )
1.63. lockedset( )
1.64. lockset( integer )
1.65. logtrigger( )
1.66. mergeset( integer, integer )
1.67. mergeset_int( integer, integer )
1.68. moveset( integer, integer )
1.69. moveset_int( integer, integer, integer )
1.70. rebuildlistenentries( )
1.71. rebuildlistenentriesone( integer, integer )
1.72. sequencelastvalue( text )
1.73. sequencesetvalue( integer, integer, bigint, bigint )
1.74. setaddsequence( integer, integer, text, text )
1.75. setaddsequence_int( integer, integer, text, text )
1.76. setaddtable( integer, integer, text, name, text )
1.77. setaddtable_int( integer, integer, text, name, text )
1.78. setdropsequence( integer )
1.79. setdropsequence_int( integer )
1.80. setdroptable( integer )
1.81. setdroptable_int( integer )
1.82. setmovesequence( integer, integer )
1.83. setmovesequence_int( integer, integer )
1.84. setmovetable( integer, integer )
1.85. setmovetable_int( integer, integer )
1.86. setsessionrole( name, text )
1.87. slon_quote_brute( text )
1.88. slon_quote_input( text )
1.89. slonyversion( )
1.90. slonyversionmajor( )
1.91. slonyversionminor( )
1.92. slonyversionpatchlevel( )
1.93. storelisten( integer, integer, integer )
1.94. storelisten_int( integer, integer, integer )
1.95. storenode( integer, text, boolean )
1.96. storenode_int( integer, text, boolean )
1.97. storepath( integer, integer, text, integer )
1.98. storepath_int( integer, integer, text, integer )
1.99. storeset( integer, text )
1.100. storeset_int( integer, integer, text )
1.101. storetrigger( integer, name )
1.102. storetrigger_int( integer, name )
1.103. subscribeset( integer, integer, integer, boolean )
1.104. subscribeset_int( integer, integer, integer, boolean )
1.105. tableaddkey( text )
1.106. tabledropkey( integer )
1.107. tablehasserialkey( text )
1.108. terminatenodeconnections( name )
1.109. uninstallnode( )
1.110. unlockset( integer )
1.111. unsubscribeset( integer, integer )
1.112. unsubscribeset_int( integer, integer )
1.113. updaterelname( integer, integer )
1.114. updatereloid( integer, integer )
1.115. upgradeschema( text )

List of Tables
1. Supported Platforms

List of Figures
1-1. Definition of view sl_seqlastvalue

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