Re: "Clustering" - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: "Clustering"
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Msg-id 200611202218.kAKMITh16596@momjian.us
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In response to "Clustering"  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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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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