On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> So really, the "streaming replication" patch should be called "hot
> standby", and the "hot standby" patch should be called "read only slaves"?
>
> And *why* can't we call it log-based replication?
+1
*) it _is_ used to replicate a database (replicate means make a copy!)
*) our target market will perceive it that way
*) sounds cool
'synchronous log-based replication'
'asynchronous log-based replication'
or,
'log-based replication', in both synchronous and asynchronous modes
merlin