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Re: Streaming replication, loose ends

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-15T17:34:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 19:30 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> >>> Uh, do we really want to call this "replication" rather than archive log
> >>> streaming or something.  It seems "replication" is a generic term and
> >>> will confuse people who are using other replication solutions like
> >>> Slony.
> >> +1, it is not replication. I would call it something like continuous
> >> archiving or streaming pitr
> > 
> > Of course "PITR" does stand for "point-in-time replication"...
> 
> I'm not sure if you're joking, but PITR actually stands for
> Point-In-Time *Recovery*.

Right.

Joshua D. Drake


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