Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I've now committed streaming replication. I moved the files around a
>> bit, and put the walreceiver/walsender stuff in a new
>> src/backend/replication subdirectory. There's enough stuff there already
>> to deserve a new subdirectory, and if we add the capability for
>> streaming base backups etc. that has been discussed, we will have more
>> code in there.
>>
>> But it's not time to party yet. There's still a few loose ends we need
>> to address:
>>
>> Documentation. The patch originally moved around some sections, but I
>> didn't include that in the committed version, to make it clear in the
>> diff what exactly was added/changed. But I do agree with the original
>> thought of adding a new "Replication" chapter, and moving all the
>> replication and standby related stuff there from the "Backup and
>> Restore" chapter, so let's start working on that.
> 
> Uh, do we really want to call this "replication" rather than archive log
> streaming or something.  It seems "replication" is a generic term and
> will confuse people who are using other replication solutions like
> Slony.

Good question. OTOH, if we move the sections about setting up a
file-shipping based standby with pg_standby, that's not streaming.

What we have now is:

Server Administration
  ...
  Backup and Restore
    SQL Dump
    File System Level Backup
    Continuous Archiving and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
    Warm Standby Servers for High Availability
      Planning
      Implementation
      Failover
      Record-based Log Shipping
      Streaming Replication
      Incrementally Updated Backups
    Hot Standby
      User's Overview
      Handling query conflicts
      Administrator's Overview
      Hot Standby Parameter Reference
      Caveats
  High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication

I propose:

Server Administration
  Backup and Restore
    SQL Dump
    File System Level Backup
    Continuous Archiving and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
  High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
    Introduction
      Comparison of different solutions (*)
    File-based Log Shipping
      Planning
      Implementation
    Streaming Replication
      Setting up
    Failover
    Hot Standby
      User's Overview
      Handling query conflicts
      Administrator's Overview
      Hot Standby Parameter Reference
      Caveats
    Incrementally Updated Backups

(*) Current content of "High Availability, Load Balancing, and
Replication" chapter goes here

Note that I propose to remove "Record-based Log Shipping" section
altogether. We can briefly mention that method under Streaming
Replication, but I consider that obsolete with streaming replication.

-- 
  Heikki Linnakangas
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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