Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut<peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > What is "hot" and "standby" about the proposed "hot standby" feature?
OK, so it is "warm slave".
> Absolutely nothing. It's horribly misnamed.
>
> I have also long argued that "Synchronous Replication" should really
> be called "Streaming Replication". Perhaps it may eventually support
> a synchronous mode of operation, but that will probably never be the
> only one.
Yes, I like "streaming replication" because no matter how we implement
this feature, there are going to be synchronous and asynchronous modes
eventually.
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