----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Singer <ssinger at ca.afilias.info>
> To: Dave Cramer <davecramer at gmail.com>; Greg Sabino Mullane <greg at endpoint.com>
> Cc: slony <slony1-general at lists.slony.info>
> Sent: Monday, 24 August 2015, 19:52
> Subject: Re: [Slony1-general] Dropping a node when the node is gone ?
> 
> On 08/24/2015 02:20 PM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>>  Yes, but the node is no longer physically there ??
>>  Even worse it is a provider for another node
>> 
> 
> I think you can leave out the admin conninfo for the node being dropped 
> and slonik will skip the uinstall step.
> 
> (This is from memory,so I might be confused)

>> You can use the resubscribe command to point the other nodes at a new 
> provider.
> 
> 


AFAIK that is the advice you gave me a while ago, and I can confirm it works as I tested it in various scenarios.   I recall having to resubscribe the downstream nodes to another provider first though.