On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
<stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
>> What's weird about using the role name? That's our standard way of
>> distinguishing between two or more users. Why invent something new?
>
> wel a user is not a host/server for me - given there is no real benefit from
> using distinct roles for each standby yet I don't see why we should
> complicate the replication setup procedure by requiring 1 role per standby.
> So I'm all for giving each standby a name but please make it an explicit one
> and not something that is only vaguely related to the actual standby host.
OK. If that's the consensus, can someone post a patch?
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