In response to "Don Barthel" <dbarthel at usedeverywhere.com>:

> Hi, I use slony to make a replication copy to run queries against to
> offload those from the main database for performance purposes.
> 
> I would like to optimize even further by periodically removing records
> from the copy without removing them from the main database.
> 
> Will I upset slony if I do this?
> 
> My main concern is that if I delete from the copy and then later that
> record is deleted from the main database, will slony handle the error
> gracefully when the DELETE FROM command comes through?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> I run Postgres 8.0 with Slony 1.1.5

This will break Slony.  It may cause data corruption.  It has also been
shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals.

A more correct approach would be to reorganize your schema so the unneeded
records are in tables that don't get replicated.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.

wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
Phone: 412-422-3463x4023

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