客户的问题是：
向Slony-I运行环境中，增加新的slaveDB节点的时候发生错误。
log中反复出现错误，然后再重新开始（重新开始部分的log省略）：
CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: connected to provider DB CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: prepare to copy table "tst"."a_tbl" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: prepare to copy table "tst"."b_tbl" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: prepare to copy table "tst"."c_tbl" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: all tables for set 1 found on subscriber CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: copy sequence "tst"."a_no_seq" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: copy sequence "tst"."b_no_seq" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: copy sequence "tst"."c_no_seq" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: copy table "tst"."a_tbl" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: Begin COPY of table "tst"."a_tbl" NOTICE: truncate of "tst"."a_tbl" succeeded CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: 33778 bytes copied for table "tst"."a_tbl" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: 27.97 seconds to copy table "tst"."a_tbl" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: copy table "tst"."b_tbl" CONFIG remoteWorkerThread_1: Begin COPY of table "tst"."b_tbl" ERROR remoteWorkerThread_1: "select "_mycluster".copyFields(2);" WARN remoteWorkerThread_1: data copy for set 1 failed 1 times - sleep 15 seconds NOTICE: Slony-I: Logswitch to sl_log_2 initiated CONTEXT: SQL statement "SELECT "_mycluster".logswitch_start()"
经过查阅资料，并且和客户沟通，发现是他们的网络环境有问题：原有节点所在网段和新增节点不在一个网段。而他们又使用了网络工具来监控网络，在某些特定情况下，网络工具会切点网络连接。
正式此原因，导致出错。然后我进行了代码分析，发现remoteworker是很勤劳的，如果发生了通讯错误，它会反复重试的：
remoteWorkerThread_main函数的while循环，就会完成这个工作。
/* ---------- * slon_remoteWorkerThread * * Listen for events on the local database connection. This means, events * generated by the local node only. * ---------- */ void * remoteWorkerThread_main(void *cdata) { … /* * Work until shutdown or node destruction */ while (true) { … /* * Event type specific processing */ if (strcmp(event->ev_type, "SYNC") == 0) { … } else /* not SYNC */ { … /* * Simple configuration events. Call the corresponding runtime * config function, add the query to call the configuration event * specific stored procedure. */ if (strcmp(event->ev_type, "STORE_NODE") == 0) { … } … else if (strcmp(event->ev_type, "ENABLE_SUBSCRIPTION") == 0) { … int copy_set_retries = 0; … if (sub_receiver == rtcfg_nodeid && event->ev_origin == node->no_id) { ScheduleStatus sched_rc; int sleeptime = 15; … while (true) { … /* * If the copy succeeds, exit the loop and let the * transaction commit. */ if (copy_set(node, local_conn, sub_set, event) == 0) { … copy_set_retries = 0; break; } copy_set_retries++; /* * Data copy for new enabled set has failed. Rollback * the transaction, sleep and try again. */ slon_log(SLON_WARN, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " "data copy for set %d failed %d times - " "sleep %d seconds ", node->no_id, sub_set, copy_set_retries, sleeptime); … } } else { … } … } … else { … } /* * All simple configuration events fall through here. Commit the * transaction. */ … } … } … } /* ---------- * copy_set * ---------- */ static int copy_set(SlonNode *node, SlonConn *local_conn, int set_id, SlonWorkMsg_event *event) { … /* * Connect to the provider DB */ … slon_log(SLON_CONFIG, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " "connected to provider DB ", node->no_id); … /* * For each table in the set */ for (tupno1 = 0; tupno1 < ntuples1; tupno1++) { char *tab_fqname = PQgetvalue(res1, tupno1, 1); gettimeofday(&tv_start2, NULL); slon_log(SLON_CONFIG, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " "prepare to copy table %s ", node->no_id, tab_fqname); (void) slon_mkquery(&query3, "select * from %s limit 0;", tab_fqname); res2 = PQexec(loc_dbconn, dstring_data(&query3)); … } … slon_log(SLON_CONFIG, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " "all tables for set %d found on subscriber ", node->no_id, set_id); … for (tupno1 = 0; tupno1 < ntuples1; tupno1++) { … slon_log(SLON_CONFIG, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " "copy sequence %s ", node->no_id, seq_fqname); … } … /* * For each table in the set */ for (tupno1 = 0; tupno1 < ntuples1; tupno1++) { … slon_log(SLON_CONFIG, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " "copy table %s ", node->no_id, tab_fqname); … if (omit_copy) { … } else { slon_log(SLON_CONFIG, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " "Begin COPY of table %s ", node->no_id, tab_fqname); (void) slon_mkquery(&query2, "select %s.copyFields(%d);", rtcfg_namespace, tab_id); res3 = PQexec(pro_dbconn, dstring_data(&query2)); if (PQresultStatus(res3) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK) { slon_log(SLON_ERROR, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: "%s" %s ", node->no_id, dstring_data(&query2), PQresultErrorMessage(res3)); … return -1; } … slon_log(SLON_CONFIG, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " INT64_FORMAT " bytes copied for table %s ", node->no_id, copysize, tab_fqname); … slon_log(SLON_CONFIG, "remoteWorkerThread_%d: " "%.3f seconds to copy table %s ", node->no_id, TIMEVAL_DIFF(&tv_start2, &tv_now), tab_fqname); } … return 0; }