Steve Singer ssinger at ca.afilias.info
Fri May 27 07:45:28 PDT 2011
The second beta release for Slony-I 2.1.0 is now available at

http://www.slony.info/downloads/2.1/source/slony1-2.1.0.b2.tar.bz2
http://www.slony.info/downloads/2.1/source/slony1-2.1.0.b2-docs.tar.bz2

Changes from the first beta include:

- Bug #204 -  Upgrade from 2.0.x fails under PostgreSQL 8.3
- Bug 205  - Upgrade fails from 2.0.0, return type from cloneNode changes
- Bug 206  - Do not perform an accidental rollback in a try block
- Bug 208  - Fixing issues with bulk adding of tables.
- Bug 209  - Default table ID problem
- Bug 210  - merge set should wait for both sets to be subscribed
              before submitting the merge event.
- Bug 211  - Modify the altperl tools so they don't enclose statements
              that wait for events inside of a 'try' block.

Slony 2.1 includes over 20 bug fixes and feature changes from the 2.0 
series including: performance improvements for behind nodes, enhanced 
monitoring, bulk adding of tables and automatic wait for.

See 
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=slony1-engine.git;a=blob_plain;f=RELEASE;h=908796f9bf40efdd8f0d89b6f966c150d7b0d2e8;hb=b2e10ea9eed60bddad5c2e8fbf3f1ae2cf02e080 
for a complete list of changes from the last 2.0 release.

  Users testing beta2 on Microsoft Windows should disable the monitor 
threads (monitor_threads=false)

Test reports of both successful tests and issues are encouraged.


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