Re: Hot standby documentation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Hot standby documentation
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Msg-id 603c8f071002070555u3245c62ck5d43cf7ae454898a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Hot standby documentation  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
Responses Re: Hot standby documentation
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On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> 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.

See here for the previous iteration of this discussion:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg00870.php

I've always thought this feature was misnamed and nothing has happened
to change my mind, but it's not clear whether I'm in the majority.

...Robert


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