Re: Hot standby documentation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Hot standby documentation
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Msg-id 201002052355.o15NtdK20314@momjian.us
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In response to Hot standby documentation  (Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Hot standby documentation
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Joshua Tolley wrote:
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> Having concluded I really need to start playing with hot standby, I started
> looking for documentation on the subject. I found what I was looking for; I
> also found this page[1], which, it seems, ought to mention hot standby.
> Comments?
> 
> [1] http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/high-availability.html

Ah, I now realize it only mentions "warm" standby, not "hot", so I just
updated the documentation to reflect that;  you can see it here:
http://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/high-availability.html
Warm and Hot Standby Using Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)

Do we want to call the feature "hot standby"?  Is a read-only standby a
"standby" or a "slave"?

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