Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications
Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Date: 2020-09-14T08:11:01Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > maybe "to one or more replicas." or maybe "to one or more replica > targets." I'd avoid the word cluster because you could set it up to > send to multiple databases in the same postgres cluster. Magnus has given a better suggestion: to just use "servers". > If you think about it, this sentence is essentially saying "If you > don't like the downsides of this replication method, you can use an > entirely different replication method." Well sure, you could, but once > you are using a different method, you are no longer using the method > we are trying to describe. In addition, there are several other > systems you could use beyond the suggested one, so suggestion this > specific one felt mis-leading or out of place. And it is not something > we talk about in any of the other sections (after all, every > replication system has trade-offs that might not be acceptable, that's > why we have so many of them). OK, I see your point. Seeing like that, it makes sense. -- Michael
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