On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Andreas Karlsson <andr...@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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers