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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: "Hot standby"?
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Msg-id 603c8f070908110441k41ed979clfbced3b6d686bdd6@mail.gmail.com
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In response to "Hot standby"?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: "Hot standby"?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: "Hot standby"?  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
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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?

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.

...Robert


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