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:
The new version comes with a lot of new features. PGQ now is able to
duplicate the queue events from one node to the next, so that it's able to
manage switching over. To do that we have three types of nodes now, root,
branch and leaf. PGQ also supports cooperative consumers, meaning that you
can share the processing load among many consumers, or workers.
Londiste now benefits from the switch over feature, and is packed with new
little features like add <table> --create, the new --trigger-flags argument,
and the new --handler thing (to do e.g. partial table replication). Let's
not forget the much awaited execute <script> command that allows to include
DDL commands into the replication stream, nor the parallel COPY support that
will boost your initial setup.
walmgr in the new version behaves correctly when using PostgreSQL 9.0.
Meaning that as soon as no more WAL files are available in the archives, it
returns an error code to the archiver so that the server switches to
streaming live from the primary_conninfo, then back to replaying the files
from the archive if the connection were to fail, etc. All in all, it just
works.
Details to follow here, stay tuned!