Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut<pete...@gmx.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. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
