Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>> The phrase "read-only replication" reads oddly to me. �Isn't the
>>> normal term "single master"?
>>
>> I've been using the phrase "binary replication" which is what's really new.
> As opposed to what? ASCII replication?
It's not the replication that's read-only, it's the queries executed on
the slaves. I haven't read the proposed docs but it sounds like this
is confusing two features that would be better explained separately,
viz
* built-in simple replication
* ability to execute read-only queries on a replication slave server
(in this context, "simple" really means "all or nothing", as compared
to stuff like Slony that can replicate subsets of a database)
regards, tom lane
