Re: Streaming replication, loose ends

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: jd@commandprompt.com

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-01-15T17:24:11Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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"...

...Robert