Jan Wieck wrote:
> Welcome again everyone,
> 
> with the now (although still limited) capabilities of the replication 
> engine, I already outran the functionality of the ducttape slony1_* bash 
> scripts. And the worst news is that I today failed on the attempt to get 
> replication between a 7.3 and a 7.4 database running because pg_dump-7.3 
> cannot dump a single table of a non-default namespace ...
> 
> I am not into wasting time with the ducttape stuff, the whole directory 
> has to go anyway. So what I want to get started is the discussion about 
> administrative tools.
> 
> What I envision so far would be a lex+yacc+libpq based commandline tool 
> on one hand. And a nice GUI tool on the other. The whole replication 
> configuration (nodes, communication paths, table sets and even the 
> failover actions) would be designed and planned in the interactive GUI 
> tool. This then would a) setup the nodes and/or b) generate the 
> commandline tool scripts to be executed for setup and possible actions.
> 
> Comments? Suggestions? 
> 
> Jan


Jan,

Great that you are making good progress.
 From my point of view it is important to have command line tools which 
can be used to do everything.
GUIs are fine but in some cases there is not even an X server or Apache 
running on a server. In this case a guy is a real problem. A should 
should be an extension rather an THE tool for administration.

However, having a GUI would be nice to see what is going on inside the 
cluster.

	Regarsds,

		Hans

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