Re: "Hot standby"?

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "Hot standby"?
Date: 2009-08-12 12:17:05
Message-ID: 407d949e0908120517y2d8d99cfgb92b9f679463eb90@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Robert Haas<robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Greg Stark<gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>> No! This is *not* what "hot standby" means, at least not in the Oracle world.
>
> I'm perplexed by this.  For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_standby

Well that just links to "Hot Spare" which is a term which existed long
before Oracle implemented hot standby or even warm standby for that
matter.

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greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf

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