Re: Hot standby documentation

From: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hot standby documentation
Date: 2010-02-07 09:41:08
Message-ID: 4B6E8AB4.1090108@bluegap.ch
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Bruce,

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Ah, I now realize it only mentions "warm" standby, not "hot", so I just
> updated the documentation to reflect that; you can see it here:

Maybe the table below also needs an update, because unlike "Warm Standby
using PITR", a hot standby accepts read-only queries and can be
configured to not loose data on master failure.

> Do we want to call the feature "hot standby"? Is a read-only standby a
> "standby" or a "slave"?

I think hot standby is pretty much the term, now.

Regards

Markus Wanner

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