Re: Streaming replication, loose ends

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

Cc: jd@commandprompt.com, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-01-15T17:37:57Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> 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*.

Oops.  No, not joking, just wrong.

But I'm still wondering why this isn't replication.

...Robert