## Name

STORE NODE — Initialize Slony-I node

## Synopsis

`STORE NODE (options);`

## Description

Initialize a new node and add it to the configuration of an existing cluster.

The initialization process consists of creating the cluster namespace in the new node (the database itself must already exist), loading all the base tables, functions, procedures and initializing the node. The existing configuration of the rest of the cluster is copied from the “event node”.

`ID = ival`

  The unique, numeric ID number of the new node.

`COMMENT = 'description'`

  A descriptive text added to the node entry in the table sl_node

`SPOOLNODE = boolean`

  Specifies that the new node is a virtual spool node for file archiving of replication log. If true, slonik will not attempt to initialize a database with the replication schema.

`EVENT NODE = ival`

  The ID of the node used to create the configuration event that tells all existing nodes about the new node. Default value is 1.

This uses schemadocinitializelocalnode( integer, text ) and schemadocenablenode( integer ).

## Example

         STORE NODE ( ID = 2, COMMENT = 'Node 2');

## Locking Behaviour

This command creates a new namespace and configures tables therein; no public objects should be locked during the duration of this.

## Version Information

This command was introduced in Slony-I 1.0. The `SPOOLNODE` parameter was introduced in version 1.1, but was vestigal in that version. The described functionality for `SPOOLNODE` arrives in version 1.2.