Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > So really, the "streaming replication" patch should be called "hot
> > standby",
>
> No. AIUI, hot standby means that when your primary falls over, the
> secondary automatically promotes itself and takes over. It requires
> things like heartbeat monitoring and STONITH and is unrelated to
> anything we currently have under consideration.
>
> > and the "hot standby" patch should be called "read only slaves"?
>
> Yes.
>
> > And *why* can't we call it log-based replication?
>
> Well, we can call it anything we want. For example, up until now
> we've been calling it "hot standby", even though that's clearly wrong.
> :-)
How about "streaming archive logging" for synchronous replication, and
"continuous archive slave" for read-only queries on a warm standby.
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