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# 7.5. More Slony-I Help

If you are having problems with Slony-I, you have several options for help:

## 7.5.1. Slony-I Website

http://slony.info/ - the official "home" of Slony-I contains links to the documentation, mailing lists and source code.

## 7.5.2. 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 here. .

If you are a question to the mailing list then you should try to include the following information:

- The version of Slony-I you are using

- The version of PostgreSQL you are using

- A description of your replication cluster. This should include the number of replication sets, which node is the master for each set.

- The text of any error messages you are receiving from slony

- If you received the error while running a slonik script then try to include the script

It is a good idea to run the Section 5.1.1 tool before posting a question to the mailing list. It may give some clues as to what is wrong, and the results are likely to be of some assistance in analyzing the problem.

## 7.5.3. Other Sources

- There are several articles here Varlena GeneralBits that may be helpful but was written for an older version of Slony-I.

- IRC - There are usually some people on #slony on irc.freenode.net who may be able to answer some of your questions. Many people leave themselves logged into IRC and only periodically check the channel. It might take a while before someone answers your questions

- pgpool

  pgpool is a connection pool server for PostgreSQL; it allows an application to connect to it as if it were a standard PostgreSQL server. It caches connections, which reduces the overhead involved in establishing them. It supports a "scheduled switchover" feature, which would allow dynamically switching over from one server to another. That would be very useful when doing a SLONIK MOVE SET, as it would allow applications to be switched to point to the new origin without needing to update their configuration.

- Slony1-ctl - Another set of administration scripts for slony

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