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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: typo in release note
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:33:19 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Fujii Masao <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> The release note says "Allow continuous archive (WAL) files
> >>> to be streamed to a standby system" about SR. But no archive
> >>> files are streamed in SR. So we should get rid of the word
> >>> "archive" from that sentence? Here is the patch.
> >
> >> I don't think that reads very well. ?Possibly we could remove
> >> "continuous archive" as a whole, but I don't think we can remove one
> >> word and keep the other.
> >
> > I'm inclined to think that "continuous archiving" was meant. ?At least
> > that's the phrase that is used in chapter 24.
>
> Yeah, probably - but I think what Fujii-san is concerned about is
> whether streaming replication is a subset of continuous archiving -
> the files never actually get "archived".
Fujii-san is absolutely right. The original wording assumed streaming
replication and hot standby were a subset of continuous archiving, but I
later realized that you do not need to enable continuous archiving to do
use them, particularly with a sufficiently large wal_keep_segments:
http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2010.html#June_16_2010
Attached patch applied.
--
Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us
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Index: doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml,v
retrieving revision 2.37
diff -c -c -r2.37 release-9.0.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml 30 Jun 2010 14:25:24 -0000 2.37
--- doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml 1 Jul 2010 02:29:52 -0000
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*** 398,404 ****
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
! Allow continuous archive standby systems to accept read-only queries
(Simon Riggs, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
--- 398,404 ----
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
! Allow a standby system to accept read-only queries
(Simon Riggs, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
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*** 412,418 ****
<listitem>
<para>
! Allow continuous archive (<acronym>WAL</>) files to be streamed to a
standby system (Fujii Masao, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
--- 412,418 ----
<listitem>
<para>
! Allow write-ahead log (<acronym>WAL</>) files to be streamed to a
standby system (Fujii Masao, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
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