On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:19:18PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Greg Stark<gsst...@mit.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Robert Haas<robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Josh Berkus<j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >>> So really, the "streaming replication" patch should be called "hot > >>> standby", > >> > >> No. AIUI, hot standby means that when your primary falls over, the > >> secondary automatically promotes itself and takes over. > > > > No! This is *not* what "hot standby" means, at least not in the Oracle > > world. > > I'm perplexed by this. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_standby > > Admittedly, wikipedia is not an authoritative source, but I've always > understood cold/warm/hot just as Peter described them upthread. Cold > means it's on the shelf. Warm means it's plugged in, but you have to > have to do something to get it going. Hot means it just takes over > when needed.
After all this, perhaps we can at least conclude that calling it "cold", "warm", or "hot" anything is confusing, because no one can agree on what that means. I propose we leave off finding a naming that includes temperature. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com
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