# Skytools, version 3

DevFeed: [Skytools, version 3](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/skytools-version-3-34448.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2011/08/skytools-version-3/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2011-08-26T19:30:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [version](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/version.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>)

Tags: [new-features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/new-features.md>), [parallel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parallel.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [queue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/queue.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [version](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/version.md>)

## AI overview

This first article in a planned series introduces Skytools version 3, which is in release candidate status in Debian experimental. It outlines features including queue-event duplication across nodes, root/branch/leaf node types, cooperative consumers, partial table replication, replication-stream commands, parallel setup support, and PostgreSQL 9.0 behavior.

## Source excerpt

You can find skytools3 in debian experimental already, it's in release candidate status. What's missing is the documentation, so here's an idea: I'm going to make a blog post series about skytools next features, how to use them, what they are good for, etc. This first article of the series will just list what are those new features. Here are the slides from the CHAR(11) talk I made last month, about that very subject: