Re: Sync Rep v17

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: "Yeb Havinga" <yebhavinga@gmail.com>
Cc: "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, "Fujii Masao" <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, "Daniel Farina" <daniel@heroku.com>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-02T22:19:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-03-02 21:26, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>
>> I think including "synchronous" is OK as long as it's properly
>> qualified.  Off-hand thoughts in no particular order:
>>
>> semi-synchronous
>> conditionally synchronous
>> synchronous with automatic failover to standalone
> It would be good to name the concept equal to how other DBMSses
> call it,  if they have a similar concept - don't know if Mysql's
> semisynchronous replication is the same, but after a quick read it
> sounds like it does.
 
I had no idea MySQL used that terminology; it just seemed apt for
describing a setup which is synchronous except when it isn't. Using
the same terminology for equivalent functionality has its pluses,
but might there be an trademark or other IP issues here?
 
-Kevin