From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200610251628.k9PGSY417489@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
In-Reply-To: <20061025162021.GE7555@fetter.org>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:28:34 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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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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