Re: Hot standby documentation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Markus Wanner
Subject Re: Hot standby documentation
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Msg-id 4B6E8AB4.1090108@bluegap.ch
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In response to Re: Hot standby documentation  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Re: Hot standby documentation
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Bruce,

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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:

Maybe the table below also needs an update, because unlike "Warm Standby 
using PITR", a hot standby accepts read-only queries and can be 
configured to not loose data on master failure.

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

I think hot standby is pretty much the term, now.

Regards

Markus Wanner


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