Simon Riggs wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:20 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Here is a new replication documentation section I want to add for 8.2: > > > > ftp://momjian.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/replication > > > > Comments welcomed. > > It's a very good start to a complete minefield of competing solutions. > > My first thought would be to differentiate between clustering and > replication, which will bring out many differences.
I have gone with "fail-over" and "load balancing" in the updated text. > My second thought would be to differentiate between load balancing, > multi-threading, parallel query, high availability and recoverability, > which would probably sort out the true differences in the above mix. But > that wouldn't help most people and almost everybody would find fault. Yep. > IMHO most people I've spoken to take "replication" to mean an HA > solution, so perhaps we should cover it in those terms. Yes, I removed any reference to replication. It seemed too general. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org