[postgis-users] Does Slony-I work with PostGIS data?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Mon Dec 22 08:16:20 PST 2008


I don't have facts on the ground, just surmise: large objects likely
refers to BLOBs, which PostGIS objects are *not* (though PostGIS
objects are large, they are large in a confusing, different way than
BLOBs). Slony should work for PostGIS.

P.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Peter N. Schweitzer
<pschweitzer at usgs.gov> wrote:
> I read in its documentation that Slony-I does not support replication
> of large objects.  Would that exclude the geometry columns used by
> PostGIS, and therefore make Slony-I an inappropriate choice for
> replicating spatial databases held in PostgreSQL/PostGIS clusters?
> Or do others use Slony-I successfully to replicate these databases?
>
> Peter
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