Re: "Clustering"

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The heading "Multi-Master Replication Using Clustering" doesn't make
> sense to me. Clustering is bunching more than host together to achieve
> a common goal. Thus multimaster replication may be a way to achieve
> clustering, but clustering is not a way to achieve multimaster
> replication. I don't actually see clustering defined in the
> documentation. Can someone explain the categorization?

I used the term clustering to mean that the servers work closely
together. This is not as true with the other items on the page that are
not clustering.

> (FWIW, I think "Clustering For Parallel Query Execution" later in the
> list is an appropriate use of the term.)

Yes, I saw it as a similar issue.

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