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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: "Clustering"
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:18:29 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The heading "Multi-Master Replication Using Clustering" doesn't make 
> sense to me.  Clustering is bunching more than host together to achieve 
> a common goal.  Thus multimaster replication may be a way to achieve 
> clustering, but clustering is not a way to achieve multimaster 
> replication.  I don't actually see clustering defined in the 
> documentation.  Can someone explain the categorization?

I used the term clustering to mean that the servers work closely
together.  This is not as true with the other items on the page that are
not clustering.

> (FWIW, I think "Clustering For Parallel Query Execution" later in the 
> list is an appropriate use of the term.)

Yes, I saw it as a similar issue.

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