Re: Controlling hot standby

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:07 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > Is 'hot standby' going to be the official moniker for the feature?
> > (not 'standby replication', or something else?).  I wonder if we
> > should pick something more descriptive.
> 
> Could also be something like "allow_connections_during_recovery".
> 
> I'd keep the word "replication" out of this..

I suspect that it is used much more during "hot standby" than during
simple "recovery", which would mean something you do after unclean
shutdown or when restoring from backup.

maybe allow_hot_slaves  ;)


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