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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Markus Schiltknecht <[email protected]>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:28:34 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:38:11AM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> 
> > Can we name the chapter "Fail-over, Load-Balancing and Replication 
> > Options"? That would fit everything and contain the necessary buzz words.
> ...
> 
> > IMHO, it does not make sense to speak of a synchronous replication for a 
> > 'Shared Disk Fail Over'. It's not replication, because there's no replica.
> 
> As you point out, there is no replica of the data, but there is some
> protection against machine failure, which puts it firmly in the
> "Fail-over" part above.

Right, but his point was not to call it synchronous.  I have fixed that
in the current version.

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