Re: "Hot standby"? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: "Hot standby"?
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Msg-id 407d949e0908120517y2d8d99cfgb92b9f679463eb90@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: "Hot standby"?  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Greg Stark<gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
>> No! This is *not* what "hot standby" means, at least not in the Oracle world.
>
> I'm perplexed by this.  For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_standby

Well that just links to "Hot Spare" which is a term which existed long
before Oracle implemented hot standby or even warm standby for that
matter.

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greg
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