Re: Streaming replication, loose ends - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Streaming replication, loose ends
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Msg-id 603c8f071001150937k4dd629co6e21e5bc26afce6f@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Streaming replication, loose ends  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Streaming replication, loose ends  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Re: Streaming replication, loose ends  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>>> Uh, do we really want to call this "replication" rather than archive log
>>>> streaming or something.  It seems "replication" is a generic term and
>>>> will confuse people who are using other replication solutions like
>>>> Slony.
>>> +1, it is not replication. I would call it something like continuous
>>> archiving or streaming pitr
>>
>> Of course "PITR" does stand for "point-in-time replication"...
>
> I'm not sure if you're joking, but PITR actually stands for
> Point-In-Time *Recovery*.

Oops.  No, not joking, just wrong.

But I'm still wondering why this isn't replication.

...Robert


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