On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 19:33 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The server's messages and the documentation uses all of these terms in
>> mixed ways. Maybe we could decide on some preferred terminology and
>> adjust the existing texts. Ideas?
>
> Never user the term "secondary" myself.
>
> I deliberately use "standby" rather than "slave", to differentiate
> between an exact replica and a synchronised copy (respectively).
Fwiw I like the word "replica" but I don't see an obvious choice of
word to pair it with
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greg