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<title>More &slony1; Help</title>

<para>If you are having problems with &slony1;, you have several
options for help:

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para> <ulink url="http://slony.info/">http://slony.info/</ulink> - the official
<quote>home</quote> of &slony1;</para></listitem>

<listitem><para> Documentation on the &slony1; Site- Check the
documentation on the Slony website: <ulink
      url="http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/genpage.php?howto_idx">Howto
</ulink></para></listitem>

<listitem><para> A copy of this documentation lives at <ulink
      url="http://linuxdatabases.info/info/slony.html"> Christopher Browne's
Web Site </ulink>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para> Other Documentation - There are several articles here
<ulink
      url="http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/index.php#Replication">
Varlena GeneralBits </ulink> that may be helpful.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para> IRC - There are usually some people on #slony on
irc.freenode.net who may be able to answer some of your
questions. There is also a bot named "rtfm_please" that you may want
to chat with.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para> Mailing lists - The answer to your problem may exist
in the Slony1-general mailing list archives, or you may choose to ask
your question on the Slony1-general mailing list. The mailing list
archives, and instructions for joining the list may be found <ulink
      url="http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/slony1">here. </ulink></para></listitem>

<listitem><para> If your Russian is much better than your English,
then <ulink url="http://kirov.lug.ru/wiki/Slony">
KirovOpenSourceCommunity: Slony</ulink> may be the place to
go.</para></listitem> 

<listitem><para> <ulink url="http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/"
      id="pgpool"> <application> pgpool </application> </ulink> </para>

<para> <application>pgpool</application> is a connection pool server
for &postgres;; it allows an application to connect to it as if it
were a standard &postgres; server.  It caches connections, which
reduces the overhead involved in establishing them.  It supports a
<quote>scheduled switchover</quote> feature, which would allow
dynamically switching over from one server to another.  That would be
very useful when doing a <xref linkend="stmtmoveset">, as it would
allow applications to be switched to point to the new origin without
needing to update their configuration. </para> </listitem>

</itemizedlist></para>

<sect2><title> Other Information Sources</title>
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para> <ulink
url="http://comstar.dotgeek.org/postgres/slony-config/">
slony-config</ulink> - A Perl tool for configuring Slony nodes using
config files in an XML-based format that the tool transforms into a
Slonik script</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/projects/slonyi/">
Freshmeat on &slony1; </ulink></para></listitem>

<listitem> <para><ulink url="http://www.slony2.org/wiki/index.php"> 
Slony-II Wiki</ulink> </para> </listitem> 

</itemizedlist>
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