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From: Markus Schiltknecht <[email protected]>
To: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:43:50 +0200
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Hi,

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Those to statements are at odds with each other, at least based on
> everyone I've ever talked to in a commercial setting. People will use
> terms like 'replication', 'HA' or 'clustering' fairly interchangably.
> Usually what these folks want is some kind of high-availability
> solution. A few are more concerned with scalability. Sometimes it's a
> combination of both. That's why I think it's good for the chapter to
> deal with both aspects of this.

Yabut... at least the PostgreSQL manual should uses the terms correctly.

And while I do perfectly agree that it's a fail-over solution and it 
should be mentioned in that section, I'm arguing that it's not replication.

Regards

Markus

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