[Bucardo-general] More Noob Questions

[David E. Wheeler]

On Oct 2, 2012, at 4:20 PM, David E. Wheeler <david at justatheory.com> wrote:

> Fellow Bucardoans,
> 
> Getting ready to do a production Bucardo deployment with 4.99.5, but have a bunch of new questions. I will harvest answers and see them into the wiki. Thanks!
> 
> * What is the default conflict resolution handler? I crated a simple multimaster setup that worked great, but haven't had any conflicts yet. I looked at goat.standard_conflict and sync.standard_conflict, but both appear to have empty strings.
> 
> * Since there is a sync.standard_conflict, I suspect I will want to specify it at the sync level most often. How do I do that? `bucardo add sync` doesn't support a `stanard_sync` option the way `add table` does.
> 
> * What is the best practive for handling DDL changes to a database? (http://bucardo.org/wiki/Bucardo/DDL isn't much help -- let's fix that!) I assume it's something like disabling all syncs and then making changes, then re-enabling, but must one also drop and re-add tables that are modified?

Oh, and one more:

* `bucardo stop` properly writes a fullstopbucardo file, but nothing happens as far as I can tell. I still see a bunch of connections in my process table. Do they only check after they've processed a NOTIFY event or something? How often do they check for the file? Might we add a way to tickle them to convince them to exit?

Thanks,

David