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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 February 2010 13:28:45 Stuart Bishop wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Julian Edwards 
<julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Monday 22 February 2010 12:42:24 Stuart Bishop wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > In the most recent launchpad-dependencies upload, Michael Barnett
> >> > added slony1-bin and postgresql-8.3-slony1 to
> >> > launchpad-database-dependencies.
> >> >
> >> > I can see how these would be wanted in production, but are they really
> >> > needed for development?
> >>
> >> If you want to run a local replicated environment for testing, yes.
> >>
> >> (make -C database/replication devsetup)
> >>
> >> I'm probably the only person who has ever done this though.
> >
> > My laptop is already overloaded.  I saw this update and groaned as I now
> > have a slony daemon running on it.
> 
> You shouldn't have a slony daemon running on it, as none have been
>  configured. The Makefile in database/replication starts up and shuts down
>  the daemons.
> 

Huh, you made me look again and you're right.

When I originally installed the latest dependencies packages, it definitely 
started that daemon when it got installed.  Weird.