| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: "Hot standby"? |
| Date: | 2009-08-11 12:32:20 |
| Message-ID: | 200908111232.n7BCWKg11862@momjian.us |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut<peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> > What is "hot" and "standby" about the proposed "hot standby" feature?
OK, so it is "warm slave".
> 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.
Yes, I like "streaming replication" because no matter how we implement
this feature, there are going to be synchronous and asynchronous modes
eventually.
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