From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:45:48 +0100
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Hmmm.  Interesting.  Does anyone else have details or an opinion on
> this?  The fact that there is something sitting above the servers
> seems to be the defining issue of calling it query broadcast.

Well, clustering is just a general term for putting several things, say, 
computers, together to a common cause.  If you cluster a database 
system, you need some way to distribute the incoming requests across 
the machines, which you can either do on the network layer or on the 
application layer.  Sequoia does the latter.  But I don't see 
any "broadcasting" in there as a defining quality.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/