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Re: Streaming replication, loose ends

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: jd@commandprompt.com, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-15T17:30:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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*.

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