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

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: "Hot standby"?
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Msg-id b42b73150908111322w1e5e59cfs677df34ca2250b1e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: "Hot standby"?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> So really, the "streaming replication" patch should be called "hot
> standby", and the "hot standby" patch should be called "read only slaves"?
>
> And *why* can't we call it log-based replication?

+1

*) it _is_ used to replicate a database (replicate means make a copy!)
*) our target market will perceive it that way
*) sounds cool

'synchronous log-based replication'
'asynchronous log-based replication'
or,
'log-based replication', in both synchronous and asynchronous modes

merlin


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