On 01/28/2014 10:56 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-01-28 21:48:09 +0000, Thom Brown wrote:
>> On 28 January 2014 21:37, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The point of Andres's patch set is to introduce a new technology
>>> called logical decoding; that is, the ability to get a replication
>>> stream that is based on changes to tuples rather than changes to
>>> blocks. It could also be called logical replication. In these
>>> patches, our existing replication is referred to as "physical"
>>> replication, which sounds kind of funny to me. Anyone have another
>>> suggestion?
>>
>> Logical and Binary replication?
>
> Unfortunately changeset extraction output's can be binary data...
I think "physical" and "logical" are fine and they seem to be well known
terminology. Oracle uses those words and I have also seen many places
use "physical backup" and "logical backup", for example on Barman's
homepage.
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Andreas Karlsson