Re: "Hot standby"?

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2009-08-11 20:22:43
Message-ID: b42b73150908111322w1e5e59cfs677df34ca2250b1e@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Josh Berkus<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> All,
>
> So really, the "streaming replication" patch should be called "hot
> standby", and the "hot standby" patch should be called "read only slaves"?
>
> And *why* can't we call it log-based replication?

+1

*) it _is_ used to replicate a database (replicate means make a copy!)
*) our target market will perceive it that way
*) sounds cool

'synchronous log-based replication'
'asynchronous log-based replication'
or,
'log-based replication', in both synchronous and asynchronous modes

merlin

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