On Feb 11, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> If I need to restart the postmaster on my slony replication slave,  
> should I shut down the slony daemons first?

shouldn't matter.  i run slony using the daemontools monitoring  
programs, so i never bother to stop slony.  the daemontools monitor  
will automatically restart it for me once the postmaster is back up.   
if you don't have an auto-restart, then you will need to manually  
restart slony after the new postmaster is up and running.