Requirements

Before you can create a replication cluster, you must install Slony on every computer that will host a node. You can find Slony at the PostgreSQL's gborg web site (http://gborg.postgresql.org) or at http://slony.info. Currently, you must compile Slony yourself (at the time we are writing this, binary distributions are not available). To build Slony, you must have the following PostgreSQL components on each system:

  • PostgreSQL C header files (typically found in /usr/include, you can locate these files with the command pg_config —includedir)

  • PostgreSQL Server C header files (typically found in /usr/include/pgsql/server, you can locates these files with the command pg_config —includedir-server)

  • PostgreSQL client libraries (typically found ...

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