On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> wrote:
> 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.
There's certainly something to be said for this.
Another idea I had this evening was "logical replication" and
"WAL-based replication", but that's a bit confusing too since logical
rep. is going to use WAL as an underlying technology.
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