From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200611202218.kAKMITh16596@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: "Clustering"
In-Reply-To: <200611202025.07234.peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:18:29 -0500 (EST)
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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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